I’ve been asked to self isolate? How??

[TigerLils]

I’ve just got a message and mail from the NHS asking to self isolate for 10 days. I’m absolutely fine, had a PCR test done on Tuesday (day 2 after arriving back to the UK) and that can back negative. All my lateral flow tests, everything is negative. Can I get a test done to get out of the 10 day isolation?

It’s possible to fit this time frame. Your contact clearly took a test a couple of days ago and got a positive result yesterday. They will have then had a phone call asking them to list their contacts. They also saw you for the last time yesterday. And gave that date to Track and Trace who have set your ten days from there.

Okay, so a little update. Apparently I was in close contact with someone on my flight. The whole flight has to isolate. Yup they notified us 5 1/2 days after the flight. If you ask me it’s a little too late to little but I guess what do I know.

For all the nasty Mumsnetters, I hope karma will get you and when you start a thread about something that may seem a big issue for you, I really hope someone will be as nasty as you were on here to me.

For everyone’s information, I am isolating and will carry on with it until I was told.

Also for anyone asking how have I not known about this or have I been living under a rock? No I haven’t and guess what I have been fucking careful the past 18 months and that’s why I didn’t get Covid or having to isolate for the first time.

I hope you all have a great evening. Oh yes and special thanks to the commenters who were slagging me off here but I can see on other threads that some of them are binning their masks as freedom day has arrived. Well because that’s flipping sensible seeing how cases are rising, but what do I know…

@TigerLils

I would imagine that the person

1. did not get a positive test or symptoms immediately hence why you were contacted 5 days later
2. it would take them a while to contact everyone on the plane .

But if someone rested positive on your flight, you will get a ping to self isolate. When I caught covid and handed Iver everyone I had been in contact with, including an avanti train service, they said that they contact the company who will send out to everyone in my carriage that had booked and its all confidential... So no one even had to know out my family and friends that it was me. You've been in contact with someone else who has had a positive.
Just because you came back from a green listed country doesn't mean you get a free pass... If someone did catch covid, you still need to follow the rules.

You should of have to self isolate for 10 days from your last contact with the person. So, 10 days from your flight home. That's what we were advised (in writing) after a kid in my son's class tested positive.

You should ONLY have to.... Sorry - too sunny today 😆

are people being delibrately thick noone knows how it works? (not you op)

i havent had covid nor been contacted by t and t but i know the rules and how it works its really not that hard

for the people giving false details get some morals

Surely you only need to self isolate for a few days then?

I need to self isolate until end of this week.
@Lucyk1 I didn’t think I would get a free pass. Is there a particular reason why you are being nasty or just jumping on the bandwagon? I did however think that the process would be quicker to let us know. However it doesn’t take them that long to contact everyone on the flight. All of us on the flight got the email and message at the same time (a couple of minutes difference perhaps)
Regardless what’s the point? The 200 people who were on that flight have been roaming a round for more than 5 days after being in contact with a positive case.

@celan ignoring can result in £1000 fine. I know one family that had that happen twice! Didn’t think the police would knock on their door twice. I am self isolating. Not convenient but I could still get symptoms up to day 10. I isolate to protect all the people I want to mix with. Had to cancel my parents coming over as even though they’ve been double jabbed I didn’t want to risk them catching covid.

@TigerLils Those posters saying ignore it won’t be paying the £1k fine if you do get a knock on the door.

Just sick to death of people trying to get out of isolating... Don't worry, my relatives skipped isolating too after being pinged and I've never spoke to them again, purely because I've had covid twice now and both times been in hospital and just fed up with everyone thinking its a joke cause they 'feel fine'. This is how covid gets spread about and has never been under control. As for you being contacted so late, it's because they have a back log of people with positive results. If you have 500,000 positives today, that's a lot of people for test and trace to contact, and take the details and then contact all those people. It's time consuming.

@TigerLils. I watch the news everyday and still get confused by all of this! It doesn’t help that the government keep chopping and changing the rules and then expect us to know exactly what we have to do.
Just ignore the know it all’s on this thread, the ones that sit in their thrones and decide they are the perfect example of human beings. Not a foot wrong and oh so perfect.

OP - I hope you’re ok. Please try to take this time to relax & enjoy the nice weather whilst it lasts. This could literally be our summer. I always think “I might not be here this time next year, so I’ll just try to enjoy today”. It’s shit. Really shit. As a single mum without any support, I know how shit it’s been. But what can we do?

Ignore all the negativity… control freaks & nasty people are everywhere. I’ve learnt to ignore them all x

Well what a ridiculous thread this is. After all this time, it seems that 80% of MNers don't have a clue about the difference between the app and test and trace, how either of them work, or when isolation starts from.

I'm not talking about the OP. Just all the people who've not only not read her posts (or anyone else's), but those who don't seem to have read or listened to anything in the last 16 months.

My friends colleague tested positive 5 days ago she was told to isolate - she didn’t test positive until day 4

I hope you’re ok op. It’s so hard to keep up with the ever changing rules. You’re not the only one who is unsure about the rules.

@TigerLils

Test and trace can get it wrong, ours did last October.
Ring them back, or ask at your next check in call about dates.

Fingers crossed you're in the clear but there have been some cases of people testing positive on day 7+.

Tigerlils,
The reason it has taken this long is that someone on the flight has COVID but either wasn’t symptomatic until sometime within the last 5 days or was symptomatic before flying and submitted a false test result (got someone else with no symptoms to take the test). You can be symptomatic up to 14 days after exposure (which was the initial isolation time) but will most likely be symptomatic within a week of exposure.

So whoever your close contact was has become symptomatic, had a PCR Test done, waited for results, submitted results to airline who then processed that by informing the flight so could easily take 5 days.

I would guess that not everyone is being honest about doing the testing when on holiday or coming home.

Cases are on the rise, Delta variant is much more contagious than previous variants and this explains why the actual number of people vaccinated and yet still having symptoms/being admitted to hospital is higher than we would have hoped. It’s crap but that’s where we are at.

I’m sorry you have to isolate and that life has been a bit crap for a while. I hope that you enjoyed your holiday and have some happy memories to focus on.
Ignore all the crap on here, you know it’s always going to happen so let it go over your head.

I'm sorry you're having a hard time and I hope you're ok.

But having said that if you went out of your way to avoid getting it then then I dont understand why you would have been comfortable with being on a plane at all. Surely its obvious its pretty much the riskiest place to be.

@Willyoujustbequiet

I'm sorry you're having a hard time and I hope you're ok.

But having said that if you went out of your way to avoid getting it then then I dont understand why you would have been comfortable with being on a plane at all. Surely its obvious its pretty much the riskiest place to be.

How can it be the riskiest place to be when nobody is allowed on a plane without a negative test result? Trains/tubes/pubs/offices much riskier

The rules are very confusing and keep changing and even the government's own website can't keep up. I don't blame the OP for not being fully au fait with the current rules.

The contact will be from the day 2 test

Arrival back in UK is day 0

Eg I flew back Saturday and took pcr today. It’ll be tomorrow at earliest before they receive it and likely Thursday before I get result so anyone on my flight is unlikely to be traced by Thursday by which point it’s been 5 days

The timing suggests it’s from the day 2 test even green countries have

For this reason I have no intention of returning or answering any calls from unknown contacts

They have to actually track you down a

[quote Unsure33]@TigerLils

I would imagine that the person

1. did not get a positive test or symptoms immediately hence why you were contacted 5 days later
2. it would take them a while to contact everyone on the plane .[/quote] Apparently I was in close contact with someone on my flight. The whole flight has to isolate. Yup they notified us 5 1/2 days after the flight. If you ask me it’s a little too late to little but I guess what do I know.

Probably picked up on day 2 test - result probably not returned til day 3 or 4.
Then information sent to NHS T&T
Who then contact the airline, who go through the passenger details.
those details then sent to T&T who then contact the close contacts.

Hence it taking so long.

Good news will be that you only have to isolate for 10 days from the contact, so already half way through.