Partner posititive just after my isolation ends, re isolate?

[Wale90]

I cant seem to find the definitive answer for this.

I tested positive on a lateral flow test on Tues 7th November then completed 10 days isolation.

Partner tested negative throughout with no symptoms but is currently waiting on test results. If he is now positive do we need to reisolate as a household?

Where do you live - rules depend on which country.

England

if you're fully vaccinated you don't need to

If you’re fully vaccinated you have no need to isolate.

Crack on, you don’t need to isolate anymore.

If in England and double jabbed, you won't have to isolate, only your partner.

If not double jabbed, you will have to isolate again, unless you provided a negative PCR at start of your illness. T and T will have no record of your positive test, so will ask you to isolate.
If you did provide a negative test, in theory you should not have to isolate, but there appear to be quite a few MNrs who have had to argue this with T and T.

@Cheesepuff1 thank you, I knew that was the case I'm just factoring in me having Covid 2 weeks ago so presumably being the one to pass it on to partner.

I can't get the vaccine due to some medical complications that we don't know enough about.

I think if your isolation finished and you went out you have to start again. But if it was within the 10 days you are “released”.

If not vaccinated then, it all depends upon whether your LFT was confirmed by a PCR test.

If not, you will be asked to isolate along with your partner.

Thank you all.

After a positive lateral flow I didn't follow up with a pcr, so I presume if his is positive I'll be asked to isolate by them again.

Having being positive via lateral flow a pcr won't help me out as I presume it'll read positive regardless, hence the 90 days wait for test following a positive result.

This happened to me, I caught Covid and DS tested positive 6 days after me. I asked T&T on 2 separate occasions whether I needed to restart my isolation and I was told no, despite not being double vaxxed (I caught it before I got my second) because DS clearly caught it from me.

I did have a positive PCR test though.

I think if you are medically exempt from vaccination you also don't need to isolate. This is what is written on the government website: 'medical exemptions: those who can evidence that they cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons.'

@FlagsFiend

I think if you are medically exempt from vaccination you also don't need to isolate. This is what is written on the government website: 'medical exemptions: those who can evidence that they cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons.'

That doesn’t make much sense, unless the reason for the rule that unvaccinated people have to isolate is to punish them for not having the vaccination.

@TheGrumpyGoat I think that pretty much is the reason. They’re trying to use it as a way to encourage people to get vaccinated. Under 18s don’t have to isolate as they hadn’t been offered the vaccine when the rule came in so it would have been seen as unfair. I guess the same applies for those with medical exemptions. vaccinated people might spread it a bit less but it’s not that effective against stopping delta transmission that there is any scientific justification for not self isolating really.

I suspect it’s discrimination to have greater restrictions for someone who cannot have the vaccine on health grounds. Health is a protected characteristic.

Choosing not to have the vaccine is not a protected characteristic so it’s not discrimination to impose additional restrictions.

I suspect, also, there are many fewer people in the former category than the latter. Whether the OP is depends on whether her GP would agree that she “cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons.”

I'm not medically except in that it would be unsafe for me to have it BUT I have a lot of health issues we're trying to understand and having test etc so I'm holding off until a final round of test are done.

So I wouldn't fall into the category of not isolating on medical grounds.

Then yes, unfortunately, if your partner tests positive after your isolation period you have to isolate again.

Sorry.

As you didn’t follow up LFT with a PCR it won’t be recorded as you having had covid, so you will have to isolate due to not being vaccinated.

No you don't have to isolate again.
Your partner does, but you don't if you have already completed 10 days isolation following a positive test.

Thanks all, still quite confusing but assuming he gets a positive result I expect I'll be told to isolate.

Genuinely didn't occur to me to bother getting a pcr after a positive lateral flow test!

@SymbollocksInteractionism

No you don't have to isolate again. Your partner does, but you don't if you have already completed 10 days isolation following a positive test.

But the op didn’t have an “official” positive test. Hence legally she now needs to isolate as not had it.