To PCR or not?...

[muminlon]

My family and I recently recovered from covid and was advised that we shouldn’t take a PCR test for 90 days. I think it is because it could show positive after we have recovered and are no longer infectious.
We are hearing that we will need a PCR test for travel and schools as part of the Omicron response.

We are wondering what we should do about PCRs for Christmas travel (we had been due to go to France to visit family) and returning to school in January. I can’t find information on line, but we can’t be the only ones with so many people recently having recovered from covid. Also appreciate it is early days for Omicron info. Hoping there is some sort of plan other than ‘cancel everything and homeschool for 90 days' if we can’t PCR.

I think part of that is not to have the same person with the same infection show up in the official figures twice. You can absolutely private PCR if you need to.

My brother in law had a second PCR during his ten days isolation because of a hospital situation and he then came up negative.

Schools tests are advisory. Our schools never stopped on site testing - anyone whos had covid simply says they cant test. About half the school currently cant test and its not an issue.

This is difficult. My BIL recently had covid and recovered but had to take PCR to travel about 3 weeks later, and he tested positive still. He ended up being absolutely hounded by track and trace every day, they wouldn't accept that he'd recently recovered and had been advised not to take PCRs for 90 days.

I don't really know what the answer is as at the moment you do run the risk of still testing positive on your return and being pushed into isolation.