When will requirement to self isolate after exposure to a positive case end?

[Medstudent12]

Rates are sky high. It’s hard to socialise now without coming into contact with positive cases. Happy to isolate if I’m actually positive. But if we’re double jabbed when does the requirement to isolate for ten days stop?

Who knows? It’s so frustrating though, a test to release would make it more bearable.

2023?

I'm currently taking part in the daily contact testing trial and in the data pack it said so far only 1 in 5 people have tested positive during the trial, so fingers crossed it will become a permanent thing.

I dont know but I'm on my second stint of isolating.. it's so frustrating, I want to be a work

Hopefully soon. I heard on the news this evening that there are trials ongoing for contacts of positive cases to not isolate but instead to take a lateral flow test daily instead, so I assume that’s the approach the government are planning to take. Not sure if it’ll be by the 19th July but I really hope so.

@LarsErickssong ah so fab you’re doing that, fingers crossed for good results.

@bellalou1234 yeah I now feel if I want to travel or have anything special that I really want to attend I have to be a hermit beforehand or risk needing to isolate. It’s so rubbish.

How will they know people do daily lateral flows? Will they post a pic?

How will they know people do daily lateral flows? Will they post a pic?

No idea to be honest. I suppose they’d have to just trust people, but that’s the same with self isolation, it can’t really be policed in any meaningful way.

@Medstudent12

How will they know people do daily lateral flows? Will they post a pic?

In the trial there's a website you upload a picture to each day, if I didn't though in reality all that would happen is test and trace would start contacting me again I think. Like with isolating I think there's going to be no real way of policing it, hopefully as it's less restrictive people would be more likely to do it though?

It's so strange my step son had a covid test tuesday so I rang my absence line at work (nhs nurse). I've had no contact from track and trace at all. Last year I isolated due to my partner having covid and they rang almost daily and give me the date I could come out of isolation.

No chance will people do a lateral every day, unless they make it a quicker process. Takes too long messing about with all the pissing plastic packaging.
I hope it ends soon though.

such a high use of plastic as well

It’s the biggest question re July 19th. Not much point in opening up nightclubs if everyone is in lockdown by stealth via track and trace.

It needs to finish for there to be any sort of normality.

On July 19th, I hope

its been in new all week that contact isolation ends 19 July

@Justanticipating

No chance will people do a lateral every day, unless they make it a quicker process. Takes too long messing about with all the pissing plastic packaging. I hope it ends soon though.

You’d have to be pretty lazy to find them too onerous. It’s really not that much of a faff.

They could easily check if you are registering the results from lateral flow tests.

I think I read a while back that the trial that’s being mentioned was due to run through the summer but I really hope it’s quicker than that.

@Justanticipating

No chance will people do a lateral every day, unless they make it a quicker process. Takes too long messing about with all the pissing plastic packaging. I hope it ends soon though.

It takes 3 minutes max from start to finish, and if the pay off from that is that you don't have to isolate for 10 days I'm sure it will be a no brainier for most people.

its been in new all week that contact isolation ends 19 July

It hasn’t. There are various options being chucked around. Including ending it for double jabbed if you test twice a day. Nowhere in the news have I seen it is entirely being done away with.

But I very much hope you are right and I’m wrong.

It can’t stay as it is. DS is currently having to self-isolate as a close contact despite the fact that he had the Indian variant 7 weeks ago. It’s madness!

@Watapalava

its been in new all week that contact isolation ends 19 July

No, it really hasn’t.

@HarryLimeFoxtrot

It can’t stay as it is. DS is currently having to self-isolate as a close contact despite the fact that he had the Indian variant 7 weeks ago. It’s madness!

It is. There should clearly Be an exception for people who’ve tested positive within a recent timeframe. At this rate half the country will be self isolating soon.

There should be a choice of either self isolating or daily test as I would find it easier just to isolate and take a test on the odd day if I had to go out but obviously for those that work or have children isolating is not good.

Isolation for double jabbed has already been done away with here (Jersey Channel Islands) and children at nursery or primary school who are direct contacts can go straight back to school after a first negative test. For secondary schools it's been cut in half to returning to school after a Day 5 negative test (most of our current 370 cases are in that age group and/or in those who've only had 1 dose)

Relatively speaking, our case numbers are high currently (mostly the result of half term holidays, both locals going away and tourists coming in) but fewer than 10% of those have been double jabbed, so clearly in our 60%+ of the population being double jabbed is the vaccine is doing its job.

Having said that, the uk turned red again 3 days ago, so while double jabbed tourists only have to isolate until a Day 0 negative test, single jabbed and most children have to isolate for 10 days.

We've also been mask-free for nearly a month, schools went back on Jan 11th and all shops, restaurants and close contact services were fully open by around early March. We've only got stand-up drinking at the bar and nightclubs to go. Everything else is normal, and most importantly no-ones panicking by only looking at the headline case numbers because the nuts and bolts details show there's no need to.

Having said all that, there's no doubt that closing the border for 3 months when this all started gave us the head start for us to be where we are now. But hopefully the uk will soon be more where we are.

@ILikeMyName

Isolation for double jabbed has already been done away with here (Jersey Channel Islands) and children at nursery or primary school who are direct contacts can go straight back to school after a first negative test. For secondary schools it's been cut in half to returning to school after a Day 5 negative test (most of our current 370 cases are in that age group and/or in those who've only had 1 dose)

Relatively speaking, our case numbers are high currently (mostly the result of half term holidays, both locals going away and tourists coming in) but fewer than 10% of those have been double jabbed, so clearly in our 60%+ of the population being double jabbed is the vaccine is doing its job.

Having said that, the uk turned red again 3 days ago, so while double jabbed tourists only have to isolate until a Day 0 negative test, single jabbed and most children have to isolate for 10 days.

We've also been mask-free for nearly a month, schools went back on Jan 11th and all shops, restaurants and close contact services were fully open by around early March. We've only got stand-up drinking at the bar and nightclubs to go. Everything else is normal, and most importantly no-ones panicking by only looking at the headline case numbers because the nuts and bolts details show there's no need to.

Having said all that, there's no doubt that closing the border for 3 months when this all started gave us the head start for us to be where we are now. But hopefully the uk will soon be more where we are.

Are they vaccinating under 18s in the Channel Islands?