When was she likely to have caught it?

[debbs77]

Child tested negative on a routine LFT on friday. No symptoms.

Went out on Saturday to a local bookshop which was pretty much empty, and home again.

Saw Grandparents on Sunday at home. Negative LFT sunday night for school the next day.

School on Monday, absolutely fine. Negative LFT Monday night.

School on Tuesday absolutely fine.

Woke up at 10.30pm Tuesday with a sore throat.

Woke up Wednesday morning with symptoms, kept off school and taken for PCR.

PCR is positive.

When would you suggest it is likely she caught it?

Please no comments on how regularly tests are done.....this is with good reason

From grandparents or at school on Monday? Or school on Friday?

Grandparents haven't really been anywhere.

Everyone else in the household is negative, no symptoms

Probably school on Friday then.

School on Friday would be my guess. Seems to take 4-5 days from exposure to symptoms.

Ah okay, thank you. Fingers crossed it doesn't go through our (large!) household like past time then.....

School on Thursday/Friday most likely

Omicron seems to have a shorter incubation period. Could have been school

I thought Omicron could present symptoms within hours

I did a negative test on a Friday, went out to the supermarket Friday, about 6pm.
Was home Saturday but went to bed with a headache.
Positive test Sunday morning. PCR confirmed as omicron that I took that lunch time.

So I think Monday is very possible.

And I'm double jabbed and boosted.

Oh, and I had been home all week before the Friday so I could only have got it then.
I helped a small child in Tesco who had lost his mum and I think he was my contact.

There's still plenty of time for everyone else to test positive at 2-3 day interval's even if everyone else is currently testing positive.

Friend's dh tested positive then 5 days later friend tested positive. Her dh stayed in one room as much as possible so suspect she may have taken 5 days after being exposed.

It is such a mess isn't it. We are always so careful, and test regularly.

I'm asking as we've been blamed for her catching it

I work across a number of schools. Last contact was Monday, tested positive Thursday. No other contact.

NHS T&T asked for school contacts back a week before.

@debbs77

It is such a mess isn't it. We are always so careful, and test regularly.

I'm asking as we've been blamed for her catching it

Noone is to blame. Its a virus and you can pass it on before you even know you have it.

Precisely. We got blamed last time too

And LFT won't always pick it up at the start of infection so you could test negative but actually be positive

We had a similar timeframe at Christmas. Based on that, she'd have caught it on the Friday or Saturday. To warn you, the grandparents we saw on the Sunday also caught it, testing positive a day later than the original positive case.

It does seem that the LFT aren't as good now.

Who is blaming you? That's silly, it could be anywhere, from anyone, like other illnesses.

School on Monday. Incubation period for omicrom is thought to be down to between 36 and 72 hours typically.

Her mum.....

With the Omicron, everyone I know who has caught it, has had a positive lft within 2 to 2.5 days of exposure.
On that's basis I'd say your grandparents or possibly Saturday.

It's not out of the realms of possibilities for it to be school, but I'd be thinking wasn't there...

Do you and the children wear masks and use hand sanitiser regularly?

We religiously wear masks and use hand sanitizer regularly. The other children have been wearing their masks throughout the school day, even the younger children, and even when it wasn't the rule.