How long after close contact did you test positive?

[LadyCleathStuart]

My parents were a close contact for covid on Thursday. The did a PCR on Saturday and it was negative so are now, within the rules, going back about their business (they are triple vaccinated).

They have LF tests and have been doing them every day, they have asked to have my DC for lunch tomorrow. I'm ok with this but DH a bit unsure.

If you tested positive after a close contact how long did it take?

You'd think she would go down with it before you if she'd already caught it from her child. Coujd you have caught it elsewhere?

7days. We also passed it on and that took 5 days

In our household… Pcr done 4 days after contact (if you are counting contact as the day the person had a pcr done that came back positive). Positive pcr confirmation received the next day the same day symptoms started and the lateral flows showed positive also. Lateral flows were still negative on the day we actually had pcrs and before symptoms. That was the same for all 3 of us in this household (1 person positive first, the next person 4 days later, then 2 more of us 4 days later…. 1 still negative!).

Close contact on Friday afternoon with someone who developed symptoms and got positive test the next day. I developed symptoms on Monday with negative lft, positive the next day (lft and pcr).

Symptoms started 2- 3 days after contact. Positive test morning of day 4

Exposure on Wednesday (the only place we could have got it from and a friend tested positive after that too). DH got symptoms on Saturday. I got symptoms on Monday.

8 days after

@Cookerhood

You'd think she would go down with it before you if she'd already caught it from her child. Coujd you have caught it elsewhere?

She had symptoms and tested positive on the Monday morning and I tested positive in the evening on a routine LFT before going to theatre. Very glad I tested before heading out.

Was definitely from her. I'd been nowhere else and we spent 2 hours drinking Prosecco and breathing the same igloo air!

FWIW, we have had several close contact cases and none of us in the house have tested positive ourselves at any time. Yet, anyway!

The LFT will show whether the person is infectious at the time they took the test though.

Assuming a negative test result, even if they are infected, their viral load is so low as to not be a risk of passing it on.

The next day is a different story, as a nascent infection might have taken hold at that point, but for the vast majority of people, a negative LFT = not infectious at that time.

One day after DS. I was negative the day before. But DS might have been brewing it for a while. Or we might have caught it from different places.

@MrsJThornton

DS tested positive for covid on 24th November. No symptoms other than headache and tired. Isolated for 10 days then back to school. Last week started feeling poorly and developed nasty cough yesterday. I know that LFT can show as positive for up to 90 days after infection but we are due to see elderly relatives at Christmas and am worried he's got it again and we won't know for sure? WWYD? Would a PCR be more reliable at telling if it's a "new" infection?

No, it can’t. You’re thinking of a PCR.

I tested positive 5 days after DH.

The kids then started vomiting 5 days after my positive. We're assuming they had Covid too but by that point neither of us were well enough to get vomiting children to a test centre.

I’ve been a close contact several times and never caught it.