Travelling after recently having COVID

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Hi all

I'm currently isolating after a positive covid test last Sunday, I've been asymptomatic and not had any symptoms luckily so quite confident I will be able stop isolating after Wednesday.

I was due to fly to Italy on Tuesday for work which obviously can't happen but my employer still wants me to go as soon as possible. They have asked me to go for another PCR test on Thursday morning (NHS one booked online) and if that come back negative they will arrange for me to get a private one on Saturday with the aim to fly on Sunday. Obviously I shouldn't really be booking an NHS PCR test for this reason but surely there's a good chance this could still come back positive? And obviously any private tests I do after that?

I can't find anything online but what on earth are you supposed to do if you need to travel and you have recently had COVID? Reports suggest you can get a positive test for up to 90 days but I can't find any information on how you travel if you can't get a negative PCR test? I know with the test events in the UK people who have had COVID in the last 180 days could attend but I can't find any information on whether Italy accept a recent positive case instead of a negative PCR?

Just wondering if anyone has experienced this or can point me in the right direction of some information regarding travel after COVID? I've looked on the NHS website/gov.uk/Italian embassy and can't find anything!

@isitspringyet he hasn’t had any positive lateral flow tests despite having positive PCR. He doesn’t have to do PCR to enter Greece or return to UK (just rapid antigen/lateral flow).
The only PCR is day 2 back in UK.
I half think he was probably positive weeks ago but as no symptoms he never knew?

@Bayleaf25 has he had the day 2 PCR yet? Just wondering if that has shown a positive? How many days will it be between him testing positive and the day 2 PCR? There’s so little information about this but maybe as he was asymptomatic there wasn’t a huge viral load which may mean fewer fragments. I’ve no idea if that’s plausible though.

Where do you get a covid recovery certificate from? Does it have to be a gp? Or is showing the positive result on your nhs app good enough?

@ArtandCoTwin he hasn’t had the day 2 PCR yet but if positive we’ll just have to a) argue with Public Health England that it is picking up a historic infection (as admitted by their own guidance not to test again within 90 days) or b) just isolate.

There will be 24 days between positive PCR and day 2 PCR.

24 days is quite a while so fingers crossed. The whole thing is madness.

I have had a family member visit the uk, catch covid and produce a negative covid test to return to their home country. This was all in the space of 3.5 weeks.

What was the outcome of day 2 ??

Pleased to report day 2 was negative.