New symptom after testing positive 18 days ago. PCR?

[Whatdoyawannado]

DS tested positive 18 days ago. He had a high temperature for three days and that was his only symptom. He went back to school for a week last week and now has a high temperature again, very occasional chesty sounding cough. Should I be getting him tested again? He's negative on lft. He did show positive for a week on lft when he had covid.

Yes

They advise no PCRs for 90 days after a positive so on that basis I wouldn’t and would just keep a low profile and keep up LFTs.

No PCR for 90 days unless new symptoms.
So technically yes you should. It's a bit sucky though as could still be showing positive anyway, but the rules are you should. If it's negative at least you know though.

But if it's positive then Christmas is cancelled. And I'm expecting it'll still be showing positive from the first infection.

What a shitty situation Op.

I’m in similar shoes so we haven’t tested my daughter on PCR but she’s had a negative LFT. I have made the decision to keep her out of shops etc until fully recovered and I’ve told the closest family and friends who might have chosen to visit otherwise. I’m not doing this because of what the rules say or what the politicians say- I’m doing it solely to protect innocent people from a possibly nasty disease.
When my kids have stomach bugs I keep them away from others for 48 hours too, because it’s the right thing to do.

They say not to have a pcr within 90 days of a positive pcr, as you'll likely test positive! There's not really much point, just treat his symptoms. Plenty of people have had symptoms past the ten day mark.

But I'm worried that there's the possibility that it might be the new variant, so might actually be contagious with it again. Christmas is buggered either way.

I wish so much I had kept him off school, then wouldn't be in this crappy situation.

We’ve had 3 in our house with covid in the last couple of weeks. Test and trace told me that if the 3rd person to test positive turns out to have omicron (whereas first 2 people presumably had Delta as we weren’t told different ), then they would send out some special pcr test that could distinguish between the variants as we could still test positive for delta. This was when you still had to isolate if you were a contact of an omicron case. So I think you can have the pcr as long as they know it’s new symptoms as they’d be able to tell which variant it was if it was positive.