Is it a legal requirement to report a positive covid test?

[weallliveinayellowsubmarine72]

As the title says....if you get a positive lateral flow do you have to report it?

I've a family member that doesn't want to. Their reasoning is they know where they got it and will already be coming to the end of isolation but if they report it they'll have to isolate for a lot longer.

They're isolating and not going to stop until they have 2 clear tests so not putting anyone at risk.

I'm curious whether legally they're meant to.

@Needcoffeecoffeecoffee

Walking the dog isnt isolating! So your family didnt isolate

Quite right. @Watapalava 's dog should just not have been walked, because dog walking, presumably in the fresh air rather than around Waitrose, is very risky and might pass Covid on to someone in a neighbouring field. The dog should preferably not be fed either, as Covid Germs might be lurking on the hands which touch the dog's bowl, which might in turn leap onto a random person passing the house.

Best to be safe.

God people complaining i walked the dog.

Im going to say it - are people that thick?! Yes it seems so many are

Honestly have people lost all reasoning and common sense?!

Dopeople genuinely need the government to gtell them how to wipe their own arse?!

Taking dog for walk on fields - NO RISK
taking kids to school in a car - NO RISK

Absolute idiots who cant think for yourselves!

If you look at the list of legitimate/exemp things you can leave your house for its actually pretty long! I could have gone to tesco for 'essential food' if i wanted to

beneaththeradar - not aimed at you, aiming at the others who moaned!

@Watapalava

Yes, they are that thick. Fortunately only on MN, to judge from the conversations I have with real people.

Have they lost reasoning and common sense: see above.

Do they need the government to tell them how to wipe their own arse: Yes. Arse-wiping is a risky business because you might dislocate your wrist in the process, and then you would have to go to hospital, but you can't do this because you might have caught Covid from your dog.

Insulting and aggressive are not the most common reactions when someone is confident in their actions...

@beneaththeradar. Not quite sure there was any need for all of that!

And I wasnt the only one pointing it out but hope you feel better getting all that off your chest

I'd you test positive, do you not have to do a pcr as proof for work?

I’m with you @Watapalava!

Good points on "severe distress"but how do you show that? So it is feeling, isn't it? So do you need a doctor to take your heart beat when you are in the mask in the shop to see if it is raised or check to see if it makes you sweat or simply ask you to describe your feelings when in the mask? I just feel it would be helpful to have more guidance on what that is. Whereas "reasonable force" is not about how you feel - it is about how others might regard how hard you push someone back who attacks you and that kind of thing - it is an objective thing.

Personally I think I do suffer severe distress in a mask but I wear it as I run round the shop, so I would imagine most mumsnetters who say therefore I cannot be suffering severe distress because I can lope the straps around my ears without fainting.

@OneMoreWish

I thought if you did a lateral and got a positive but had no symptoms you didn't have to do pcr but had to isolate. You only have to have pcr if you have the classic symptoms. Hard to say then if illegal or not if someone claims no classic symptoms ...

Nope- you don’t have to have a pcr or do any test at all when you have symptoms. Having any sort of medical procedure cannot be made compulsory thank god, in the UK at least.

I didn't report when all of us had it - notified the school that the kids had tested positive so they knew (but half the class had caught it from the teacher by then anyway so school were more than aware!), and then just stayed at home until it was over with. Was over the festive period so no PCRs available easily anyway, no employers needing "proof" as we were all off regardless - and since they no longer allow proof of having caught it and recovered on these stupid covid passes - absolutely no benefit to having it on my medical records either.

Oh yeah - GP surgery know at least one of us have it cos I rang up to change a face to face appointment with the nurse to a telephone one.