When does 10 days start?

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Daughter at uni tested positive last night on a LFT.

She has a PCR being posted to her. She's probably not going to get the result until Saturday.

She has no symptoms as yet.

Assuming the PCR will be positive, when will she be out of isolation?

10 days from LFT?
10 days from PCR?
10 days from symptoms if she develops them?

I'd imagine 10 days from LFT. If she gets symptoms she starts the 10 days again. Could she not have gone to a test centre?

Sounds like Christmas Day will be her freedom day. I'd be tempted to put she had a lateral flow positive day before so she would be free Christmas Eve, especially if not unwell. But then only mix with those who know the score.

I hadn't heard about the 10 days restarting if she gets symptoms before though.

10 days from whichever is first of LFT, symptoms or PCR.

From nhs:

How long you need to self-isolate

If you test positive, your self-isolation period includes the day your symptoms started (or the day you had the test, if you do not have symptoms) and the next 10 full days.

If you get symptoms while you're self-isolating, the 10 days restarts from the day after your symptoms started

Uh, I understood it to be if you are selfisolating because of contact and you then developed symptoms. Confusion is made worse in this country as no distinction is made between self isolation and quarantine

LFT day would be day 0. She then needs to isolate for 10 full days. If she is symptom free on day 10 she can go out and about.

Yes, any symptoms may mean she needs to restart her count.

Thank you all.

We have 13 people due to have Christmas dinner with us. Some of them elderly.

DP is adamant he wants to collect her from uni Xmas Eve whether she develops symptoms or not and people can choose to come to us Christmas Day or not. I suspect all his family will come and mine won't.

I am so torn. If she gets symptoms, she shouldn't come home for Christmas and she'll be on her own in halls but that would protect everyone else. 😞

It starts from the day you take the PCR test so she won’t be out I don’t think

Does it not start from the posituve LFT rather than the PCR?

Starts from positive LFT as day zero if she doesn't have symptoms. Doesn't restart if symptoms!

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Starts from positive LFT as day zero if she doesn't have symptoms. Doesn't restart if symptoms!

It does restart if you read the nhs link

From www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self-isolation-and-treatment/how-long-to-self-isolate/

It starts from symptoms or Test results if no symptoms.

The restart only happens if you not had any symptoms and are isolating because contact then you develop symptoms. So day 5 you catch it and start coughing total days isolating 15. If a test is positive it’s active in your system that’s why counter starts.

That's not what the link says
It's saying that if you test positive with no symptoms and go on to develop symptoms then you restart isolating from the day of the symptoms.

I think the restarting if develops symptoms applies to if you're isolating with a CoVid positive person. It doesn't make sense to re-start you f you develop symptoms if you live alone.

DP is adamant he wants to collect her from uni Xmas Eve whether she develops symptoms or not and people can choose to come to us Christmas Day or not

I would do the same

...because you could become positive if you contract it from the person you're isolating with if you were negative to start with.