So today is the last day to test positive and still have a Christmas day ...

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Just tested positive and worried about family catching it from today onwards. I'm wondering if anyone won't be affected this Christmas.

@JustHereWithMyPopcorn

There is no way I would have kept him isolating for a further ten days, I can't imagine anyone thinking that was reasonable. It was quite common to develop different symptoms through the isolation period.

It would only have been from the first symptom, not resetting every time.

I don’t think that guidance was well publicised. I only came across it recently.

I wonder if its new based on the new variants?

I've just been informed by work that someone I worked with on Saturday has tested positive today so I am praying I've not got it! I have been doing LFT's every other day anyway and just done one now which is still negative so fingers crossed...

I tested positive yesterday so took DC for PCRs today so that if they have got it we can still go to family on Xmas day

@JustHereWithMyPopcorn

I wonder if its new based on the new variants?

I looked back over my screen shots and found one with it on from December 2020.

@JustHereWithMyPopcorn

When my DS had asymptomatic positive PCR we isolated ten days from the test. He lost his sense of smell and taste a week later, are you saying he should have isolated for a further 10 days from that point?? That is not the advice we were given by the people who phoned us to tell us what to do.

Yes, when my DD had it t&t were very clear that if she developed any new symptoms I.e. a cough the 10 days would start again.

I do worry how those who have to isolate now will get food. All the shopping deliver slots will be full for christmas

@PurpleDaisies no it wasn't and at no time when my ds had covid did track and trace tell us As he never had the main symptoms , As it happened he never really got the main symptoms either but they never told us
Imagine getting a cough day 10 and isolating further , loads of people won't of added the 10 days so they need to be more concise and inform

My DD 11 tested positive yesterday , It’s a covid Christmas for us , she was heartbroken and cried her eyes out at missing the last few days of school

@Angel2702

No yesterday was. D you test positive today you won’t end isolation until midnight on Christmas Day as today would be day zero and it is ten full days after that. Unless you had symptoms before that.

Fuck, fuck, FUCK.

@Cocopogo

I tested positive yesterday so took DC for PCRs today so that if they have got it we can still go to family on Xmas day

@Cocopogo If they don't have symptoms and test positive, today will be day zero and they'll have to isolate for 10 days from tomorrow.

There’s no such thing as day zero! It’s day one of positive, regardless I’ve had results and it was negative! Which means they are likely to catch it off me over next few days and miss Xmas.

DS2 had a positive PCR yesterday morning. Out of isolation on Christmas Eve (evening). We are all negative so far, but are testing daily. We don’t have any Christmas shopping slots booked so we will be screwed if we get it too.
My only plan is to ask a friend to add my shopping onto their order and transfer them the money.

I’m sure if you socialise on day 9.5 it’s probably fine…

Ehhh. I live alone (by choice, but pandemic has been fairly shit for my mental health). Current options are continue with modest social plans and risk being alone for Christmas day, or isolate anticipating Christmas and spend ten days entirely alone just in case.

I'm going with option A... bearing in mind it was twelve full weeks before anyone in government allowed single people living alone to have human contact last time, I'm making more of my own decisions this time.

I had a runny nose and sore throat for the first 4 days and then the cough started. Trace and test told me to start isolation from first day of cold symptoms.

@KloppsTeeth

DS2 had a positive PCR yesterday morning. Out of isolation on Christmas Eve (evening). We are all negative so far, but are testing daily. We don’t have any Christmas shopping slots booked so we will be screwed if we get it too. My only plan is to ask a friend to add my shopping onto their order and transfer them the money.

I don't think that's right .

@Marianne1234

I’m sure if you socialise on day 9.5 it’s probably fine…

Agree.

I was thinking the other way, I was wondering if they’d made it 10 days as they knew no one would do 14, but really we should be isolating for 14….

@1990s

I was thinking the other way, I was wondering if they’d made it 10 days as they knew no one would do 14, but really we should be isolating for 14….

Yes - it used to be 14 here but I’m sure I read they changed it because some people weren’t isolating and they thought people were more likely to isolate for 10 days. I think in some other countries it’s still 14.

OP does the most recent announcement about isolation reducing to 7 days mean u can see your family now?