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Contact with positive cases at home after isolation period

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ChocolateToad · 28/12/2021 21:05

Can anyone point me to any guidance about this situation… child A in house had symptoms and tested positive. Adult B tested positive a few days later. Today is the end of child A’s isolation but also today Child C has had positive PCR results. Can Child A and/or Adult B leave at the end of their isolation period if they continue to have contact with Child C? Child C has been isolating with A and B since Adult B tested positive, so nobody has left the house but have all been mixing together within the house. If we are mixing with Child C (symptomless) do we ALL need to isolate until they have finished their isolation period? It is not possible for Child C to isolate from us within the house. I can’t find any info about this and 111 were entirely unhelpful.

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somehowsunshine · 28/12/2021 21:06

I thought that under 18s and adults who are jabbed, don't have to isolate if they have contact and no symptoms.

ChristmasMouseInHouse · 28/12/2021 21:06

Are you in England? Are the children under 18? If so then children don’t need to isolate anyway? But basically yes, the two that have had covid can leave isolation at the end of their isolation periods even if someone else in the house still has covid.

ChristmasMouseInHouse · 28/12/2021 21:10

This is a useful graphic from the bbc from the start of the pandemic. The length of isolation may have changed now but the idea is still the same.

Contact with positive cases at home after isolation period
Mrsdoubtfireswig · 28/12/2021 21:14

I asked track and trace and publish health about this as we had a similar pattern. They said as person who had covid was out of isolation (either 7 days with negative test or 10 days). They’re free to go out, even if other members of the household are still positive. They said the chance of reinfection is very very low as those who’d had it would have got a good dose of immunity

We didn’t have visitors to the house though until the last one had tested negative

Mrsdoubtfireswig · 28/12/2021 21:14

*public not publish…

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ChocolateToad · 28/12/2021 21:20

ChristmasMouse I saw that infographic but it clearly states and is based on the people distancing 2m from each other within the house. What if you’re not able to do that?

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ChocolateToad · 28/12/2021 21:22

@Mrsdoubtfireswig

I asked track and trace and publish health about this as we had a similar pattern. They said as person who had covid was out of isolation (either 7 days with negative test or 10 days). They’re free to go out, even if other members of the household are still positive. They said the chance of reinfection is very very low as those who’d had it would have got a good dose of immunity

We didn’t have visitors to the house though until the last one had tested negative

Thanks. Track and trace were very vague when I asked this same question.
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ChocolateToad · 28/12/2021 21:24

@ChristmasMouseInHouse

Are you in England? Are the children under 18? If so then children don’t need to isolate anyway? But basically yes, the two that have had covid can leave isolation at the end of their isolation periods even if someone else in the house still has covid.
In NI, not England. Children under 18. We’ve all had positive PCR tests at varying points.
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ChristmasMouseInHouse · 28/12/2021 21:31

@ChocolateToad

ChristmasMouse I saw that infographic but it clearly states and is based on the people distancing 2m from each other within the house. What if you’re not able to do that?
I think it still applies. It’s fairly unrealistic to be able to distance in your own house, even if it might be the ideal.

It’s likely you all have the same virus/variant and therefore won’t catch it again from someone else within your own household, so those who have had it need only isolate until the end of their own isolation period.

KCee30 · 28/12/2021 22:07

Nope. Once someone has tested positive and done their 10 days isolation they can still go out - even if there's still family members isolating at home.

Happened to us recently. Dp caught it and me and dc did not catch it until near the end of Dp's isolation. Dp went back to work and shopping etc when his isolation ended even though the rest of us had covid at that point

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ChocolateToad · 28/12/2021 22:43

@KCee30

Nope. Once someone has tested positive and done their 10 days isolation they can still go out - even if there's still family members isolating at home.

Happened to us recently. Dp caught it and me and dc did not catch it until near the end of Dp's isolation. Dp went back to work and shopping etc when his isolation ended even though the rest of us had covid at that point

KCee30 was he distancing from you at home or were you all going about your business as normal at home at that stage when he had finished his isolation period)?
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KCee30 · 29/12/2021 07:18

@ChocolateToad no we never distanced from each other when he had covid and when he finished isolating. It was really hard to do so as dc have sen and a small house. I think the risk of re infection is pretty low for someone who's has just had covid! I was opening doors and windows, cleaning all the time and no very close contact - like cuddles, kisses! we weren't sleeping separately too as my nasal congestion was making me restless at night and snoring so he didn't want to sleep in the same bed 😅

Waxonwaxoff0 · 29/12/2021 07:30

You're free to leave the house when your isolation period is up, doesn't matter if others in the house are still positive.

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