Ok this is long….toddler was sent home from nursery a week last Monday (21st) due to positive case. She isolated at home and started coughing last Saturday. Got her tested on the Monday as well as myself and my other two primary aged children. Toddler was positive, the rest of us negative. We have all now been isolating since Monday (28th). I got myself and other children tested again on Thursday as I’ve had a headache and sore throat. I tested positive and my other children are still negative.
My older children end their isolation on Wednesday and can technically go back to school then (they follow the toddler’s isolation period according to test and trace not mine). They are not showing any symptoms and have tested negative twice now. However it seems a bit risky to me - surely I could pass it onto them since their last negative - I’m now very snotty, coughing, sneezing, headache so very much symptomatic. Their school are rife with covid and bubbles are popping all over the place. One of my daughter’s classes are currently isolating for the second time since half term. So the question is - do I just send them back Wednesday or should I test them again before, say on the Monday, to double check? Obviously if they started showing symptoms before Wednesday I would get them tested but if they are still asymptomatic?