If you get a positive LFT who do you tell?

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As I understand it, the process is to do nothing until the PCR result also comes back positive and then tell test and trace who will assess contacts and advise as necessary.

Would you tell, for example, people at the party you were at on Saturday night or the people you had lunch with on Sunday?

Yes I would tell anyone I had been in contact with 48 hrs prior to a positive LFT.

Everyone

Yes I would tell them and let them know you are awaiting confirmation on PCR.

Yes u would give them a heads up so they can test if they want.

If you want to officially report the result then try this:

www.gov.uk/report-covid19-result

There's a green button part way down the page, labelled "Start Now", click on that and follow the instructions.

I would notify all that I've been in contact with, but clarify that it hasn't been confirmed with a PCR yet. I know I'd like to know if I can, esp if it means I can avoid seeing someone vulnerable etc

I’d tell everyone I’d been in contact with to give them The opportunity to test themselves or keep their distance from other people. It’s the responsible thing to do.

Yes I would tell people. Am currently fairly at school family who told nobody except school (who sent useless non-specific 'warn and inform' letter) that they had a positive LFT Friday and then positive PCR result Saturday morning. Small school, all parents on class WA group. Silence. Until Sunday, when another kid tested positive on LFT done as a precaution before a family gathering and told us straight away. Family 1 did nothing and so 14 kids were out socialising all day Saturday and Sunday morning. Family 2 told us straight away, and within hours, 11/14 kids had positive LFTs.

Pretty p'd off with family 1 really.

So yes, tell people. They could be planning things that they would make different decisions about if they know.

@Deliaskis I feel for you. Someone I considered a friend did similar to us, just prior to us travelling to a family wedding. That she knew had elderly relatives attending and which had been cancelled several times due to covid.

I understand you might not want to tell everyone about positive tests for all sorts of reasons but I was a bit hurt she didn't think to give us a heads up that my DD might have been exposed by hers, albeit unwittingly.

Yes, I would tell people - everyone in the previous 48hours.

Because I wouldn't necessarly know what they might be doing next, and it could include contact with vulnerable people. Whatever their plans, they deserve to have relevant information so they can decide whether to amend them

You register it online and they will tell you to get a pcr.

Tell people. Unless you are a selfish fuckwit.

There are a couple of parents who really pissed me off because they didn't tell after school clubs when they should have. Lots of people are seeing elderly relatives during December.

I'd be on the phone to contacts pronto.

[quote GellerYeller]@Deliaskis I feel for you. Someone I considered a friend did similar to us, just prior to us travelling to a family wedding. That she knew had elderly relatives attending and which had been cancelled several times due to covid.

I understand you might not want to tell everyone about positive tests for all sorts of reasons but I was a bit hurt she didn't think to give us a heads up that my DD might have been exposed by hers, albeit unwittingly.[/quote]
Yes my take on it would be....tell me you might have COVID and you found out after we spent time together, and I'll be sympathetic, I'll test myself, and will probably offer to help e.g. getting you some shopping etc....tell me you have COVID and didn't tell me when you knew, after we had spent time together, I'm likely to think you're a bit of an inconsiderate and ignorant prick.

If you report it via the government website it triggers contact tracing (well at least in Scotland it does), contact tracers will email you a form to detail your contacts and then, in turn, your contacts will receive a text to tell them to isolate and book a PCR.

I'd tell everyone