Conflicting isolation advice! Help?

[SheABitSpicyToday]

Currently have 7 days left of my isolation, tested positive on Saturday. This means my isolation ends on Monday, but my husband has tested positive today. He needs to isolate for 10 days from today.

I’ve had to rearrange all of my hospital appointments this week, and the midwives I’ve spoken too have said I don’t need to isolate for an additional 10 days from my husbands positive test, just to do my 10 days from my positive test on Saturday.

However, husband is on the phone to rest and trace and they have said that I need to isolate for an additional 10 days from today, putting my isolation end date at the 2nd September. Can’t seem to find much online about this situation.

Can anyone advise? All of my appointments have been rearranged for the 31st and the 1st and I wan to be sure before phoning around and canceling them again.

No need for you to isolate for longer than 10 days

Your isolation period remains unchanged as he is a household contact. You're the primary case in your house so once your 10 days are up you are no longer infectious.

Your husband should have been isolated from when you tested positive, and sadly now he is also positive he is the one who resets his isolation clock and restart ten days.

Where do you live (England and Scotland have different rules, for example), and are you double vaccinated?

That’s what I thought. The woman on the phone is clearly an idiot, the phone call is ongoing for hour and a half now. Ridiculous.

No not double vaccinated, in England.

I'm fairness, your husband is a positive COVID case. He needs to isolate for 10 days, so test and trace will be running through a risk assessment with him, which takes time.

Your isolation was in relation to your positive result and remains valid, please don't come out of isolation early, which it sounds like you have no intention of doing.

Exemptions to isolation was ONLY for contacts of cases, not cases.

No the woman was crap. Talking over him, repeating the same questions over and over again. I’ve done two of these now for myself and our daughter as we tested positive a few days ago and neither of our phone calls took longer than 20 minutes. I’m going to do the rest of my 10 days, but not add more on. Thankyou all for your advice.

We were told this, as all of my children came down with COVID and gave it to me and we were told everyone's isolation had to keep starting again from one or the test and trace calls (as we got them everytime someone tested positive).

Its completely wrong information. We checked the Public Health Information and we checked with another caller from test and trace and the first lady had given incorrect information. They are reading from a screen and I feel like they do not listen to what you are saying!

The majority of the people that work for test and trace are poorly trained, unqualified and often not very bright.
They are generally working from home with a script that they struggle to understand. They are essentially clueless and give conflicting advice.

@SheABitSpicyToday - I think Track & Trace are correct. You said you're not double jabbed. That changes everything.

Any wrong advice provided can be reported via 119. It's a shame there was poor service, if you know your husbands ctas ID they can cross check the recording and records and ensure that the issue is resolved. Sure it wasnt intentional, just a shame you had less than adequate service. Still, at least MN helped 😀

My app hasn’t updated with needing to isolate any longer so I’m going to leave it. Will do my remaining seven days then head out to my appointments.

If you are index case and husband tested positive during your isolation period you do not need to extend yours.

I have said this on other threads : their computer systems do not join up the history of household cases. Each new case is treated as the first one. Even now, with the rule changes, they read the same script about household isolations and only at the end of the phone call does it change. They send out texts about children isolating,too..

I phoned 119 during my (first...) SI about some incorrect info. They agreed with me but all they do is try and arrange a call back from T and T (who then don't call back), or put you through to T and T who then say a supervisor will call. Who doesn't...

[quote luckylavender]@SheABitSpicyToday - I think Track & Trace are correct. You said you're not double jabbed. That changes everything. [/quote]
Not in this case @luckylavender
OP will have done her time (and hopefully got some Covid antibodies to boot). She definitely does not need to restart her clock for other household cases running directly from her own.
As she's not double vaxxed, she would however have to re-isolate if she went out into the world and had close contact with another Covid case in a week's time - and of course she can't now get her second vax until 28 days are up.
It seems pretty stupid that a recently confirmed case doesn't legally give you some protection against isolation, even just until you can get your vaccines done. In some countries it does.

No you don’t have to restart you isolation again as you gave him the virus and he’s not likely to give it you back if that makes sense. Track and trace told me this when we all had it

She's talking nonsense, I've had this this week as DS tested positive 6 days after I did and I've been informed that I do not need to restart my isolation.

Even though I’m not vaccinated?

So much conflicting advice about! It’s a nightmare for everyone!

[quote luckylavender]@SheABitSpicyToday - I think Track & Trace are correct. You said you're not double jabbed. That changes everything. [/quote]
No it doesn't change anything as OP is currently isolating with covid. Her isolation period does not extend beyond her own 10 days

As long as you don’t have continuing symptoms you don’t have to continue to isolate after your 10 days. If you’ve still got a cough that’s ok, but not if you feel ill.
If your dh had got it and you hadn’t you’d have to isolate with him as you’re not vaccinated but that’s a different scenario.