Relative 15 mins indoors yesterday with person who tested positive today …

[Frizzlington]

Would you feel comfortable seeing this relative tomorrow Friday if relative’s lateral flow is negative ?

When the relative was round at their friend’s house yesterday the friend was negative, but then tested positive on a lateral flow this morning. The friend is getting a PCR test to confirm.

Know that it can take a few days from getting infected to then having a positive lateral flow. I’m conflicted as to whether or not I go to my relative’s house tomorrow for a meal. It’s not the end of the world if I don’t go as we live nearby, but feel they think I’d be mad not to go as the risk is so minimal.

Thoughts please everyone.

Depends whether you catching it and then having to isolate would mess up important future plans for you / if you are clinically vulnerable etc. And your vaccine status. Personally if it's just a meal and not an important occasion, I'd give it a miss.

I don't think I'd go as it can be put off to a later date? They are potentially a close contact and the incubation period is quite short now.

Nope

Wouldn't be keen either. Omicron is spreading like wildfire and, if you were to catch something, even if you didn't end up ill, there's a shortage of PCR tests etc and the whole thing could end up a massive ball ache that would eat into your next two weeks #pessimist

Under the old rules your relative would be having to isolate for 10 days.

15 minutes with someone contagious with Omicron is plenty of time for your relative to now be infected. Possibly if they have had their vaccinations including a booster they'll avoid it but they probably won't know for around 5 days and may well test negative tomorrow even if they have Covid as it's so soon after exposure.

Personally I would postpone meeting them for a week or so. Is a meal with them really worth the risk? I certainly wouldn't be going.

Depends if its someone I see all the time anyway. If it was someone I haven't seen for 2 years, I definitely would risk it. If its someone I see every weekend, I would just leave it til next weekend

OP, how much are you out and about generally anyway? Is it basically only a matter of time until you come into contact with Omicron or do you have a realistic chance of "lying low" and avoiding it? And are you or anyone else in your household particularly vulnerable to Covid?

Thanks for all your thoughts.

I think I’m going to say I can’t see my relative tomorrow as Omicron is so infectious it would be a gamble. Plus, as several of you have said, they live nearby, so catching up with them at a later date seems the sensible option. My relative will probably say I’m being ridiculously over cautious especially as neither of us are CEV !

Yes, I would have no problem seeing this person.
But then I work with members of the public 🤷‍♀️

I'd be fine with it but I was a close contact myself last week and I didn't catch it.