What's the current rules?

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If a household member tests positive does the rest of the family need to isolate to?

I'm confused

Depends if you're in England or Scotland and whether you've been double vaccinated or are under 18.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-stay-at-home-guidance/stay-at-home-guidance-for-households-with-possible-coronavirus-covid-19-infection

In England, adults double vaccinated, children to young

Adult stays home and isolates.
Double jagged and under 18 carries on as normal.

In England you would all be advised to take a PCR test then but don't need to isolate if double vaccinated or under 18

No wonder everyone is getting it, isn't the incubation period up to 14 days?

Double jagged and under 18 carries on as normal

Well not exactly, double jabbed adults are supposed to reduce social contacts and wear face coverings.

My situation this week!
My LFT positive DH negative
I told DH I will book a PCR which I knew would be positive, and it's advised he should too
Both went for a PCR both positive!!!

^England

My husband and son are both positive. Husband has 2 days of isolation left, soon tested positive yesterday. 2 daughters and I have had 2 x PCR's and both times were all negative. Will do daily lateral flows whilst soon is isolating just in case.

Where we are it’s business as usual regardless of vaccine and 7 day LFT are advised if close contact.

Or alternatively twice weekly for businesses or school depends on age or employer.

Gave up on the rules a long time ago.
If I had a positive PCR, I’d stay home until I recovered. Isn’t that just common sense?

They are asking about family members, not the person who has tested positive

@BluebellsGreenbells

Where we are it’s business as usual regardless of vaccine and 7 day LFT are advised if close contact.

Or alternatively twice weekly for businesses or school depends on age or employer.

So you’re not in the U.K. then? As there isn’t anywhere in the U.K. that it’s “business as usual” for close contacts.

T&T told me that we should all take PCRs. Timing wasn't given, so considering we'd already done negative PCRs at the same time as the positive case, I ordered postal ones to take on day 5. I did an LFT twice a day until the morning of day 4, when I had a positive one of those so went for a drive through PCR. I sent child's postal PCR off on day 4, she's been negative twice now. She's still doing daily LFTs because both of us are positive.

School wanted me back until I tested positive. I was masked the whole time apart from with my class. Child's school were happy to have her back unless she had symptoms. Officially we didn't need to do any LFTs or the second PCR for child. According to T&T.

We'll LFT child daily until my isolation period is up on Saturday.

She'll probably catch it from school next week. Ha.

9 yr old tested positive 10 days ago, her mum tested positive 8 days ago and the dad had a positive LFT this morning, so it's taken 12 days to work it's way through a small household. Surely they are all high risk of spreading?

High risk now do you mean? Transmission risk drops as the days go by. Yes there is a small risk after 10 days but very small and less in vaccinated people.

Text from the text in the UK:

NHS Test and Trace has identitfed you as a contact of someone who has recently tested positive for COVID-19.

You do not have to self-isolate. However you should book a PCR test, even if you do not have symptoms.

If you develop symptoms, you should self-isolate immediately before taking your PCT test.

When you follow the links to the guidelines:

As well as getting a PCR test, you may also consider:

Limiting close contact with people outside your household, especially in enclosed spaces.
Wearing a face covering in enclosed spaces and where you are unable to maintain social distancing.
Limiting contact with anyone who has an underlying health condition that puts them at higher risk of severe illness if infectedwithCOVID-19.
Taking part in twice weekly LFD testing.

This advice applies until 10 full days after your most recent contact with the person who has tested positive for COVID-19.

Bit tricky for school staff and kids in schools really. Where masks aren't allowed.

Here in wales everyone in my household had to get a pcr asap when I tested positive and they had to isolate until they got a negative result. Then they could go about their business.

If they weren't double vaccinated and were over 18 then they would have to isolate for yhr full 10 days.