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Covid one week before holiday

69 replies

DottyHarmer · 27/03/2022 09:41

Help! We’re all positive and booked for a holiday abroad next Monday. What is the situation? I can’t seem to find a definitive answer.

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50DaysAF · 27/03/2022 17:08

A link to the document you have to complete to get in.

www.spth.gob.es/faq?tab=2

“Certificate of Recovery: shall be valid provided that more than 11 days have elapsed since the first positive NAAT or rapid antigen test (RAT) was performed. This certificate shall be valid for 180 days thereafter.

Thewindwhispers · 27/03/2022 17:19

Well you cancel your holiday OP, because you will still in infectious in 7 days, and you don’t want to expose a whole plane load of people incl the plane crew, plus the airport people.

If you aren’t asking what the moral position is and instead want to know what you csn get away eith, then read the rules on the link below. As I read it you might be able to get there but there’s a major risk of testing on arrival (Spain has been extremely strict) and you may find yourself quarantined in Spain or refused entry to the country and deported.

www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/spain/entry-requirements

BeckyWithTheGoodHair010101 · 27/03/2022 17:52

Have you logged the positive LFT on the nhs app? If not then don't worry about. No one will know. You'll be fine by next Monday.

FairyCakeSprinkles · 27/03/2022 18:08

I'm genuinely baffled @Bobbybobbins because surely isolation only has an impact if you do it on a population level, I can't see many teachers and pupils testing once the guidance requesting they do ends.

Will your work let you have time off to isolate if your well enough to work? Mine isn't...

I'm not being goady, I just don't understand your point of view. I really hope you and your DC get well soon.

Overthebow · 27/03/2022 18:11

@BirdOnTheWire you do realise that from April there will be no free tests anymore so no one will know if they have covid or not? It’s not selfish, it’s the new rules.

Bobbybobbins · 27/03/2022 18:17

@FairyCakeSprinkles

I totally take your point about what will happen from 1st and no idea tbh. It is not practical to expect people to test when there are no tests.

At the moment we have the tests and my work are asking us to stay off til two negative tests. We are right at the tail end of the testing but half my team have had it this fortnight and all done the same. So I guess I am talking about the present rather than the future.

Lazypuppy · 27/03/2022 18:25

Why on earth did you test with a week to go to holiday!?

FairyCakeSprinkles · 27/03/2022 18:25

Yes, same with DS's school although some parents already don't have access to LFTs. As I say, I have two and I will use them as requested by school.

I guess we just have to see what happens next. It seems very blunt to go from the volume of tests we have been used to to nothing.

Watapalava · 27/03/2022 18:33

Test are not readily available even if symptomatic from Friday

Testing is not even going to be advised from Friday!!

Gov have already confirmed they are removing the advice to isolate with covid from 1/4 so people will not longer be advised to stay in with covid at all.

People really will have to get over covid.

SulaSA · 27/03/2022 19:15

Having been in Spain, with a child taken ill, never again.

My insurance wouldn't cover DH and I to both stay, nor our other children. I had to stay alone in Spain, with our young DC in hospital.

All sorts of issues.
How I wish I'd had more Spanish than I did. I've never felt so alone in my life. I have basic Spanish and some doctors some English- but nuances are lost. The English volunteer translator was a godsend when she was on duty.

The hospital wasn't local to where we were staying, travelling on public transport for visiting took ages.

We couldn't fly home until given clearance.

Holiday reps tried to help, but this doesn't really fit into their working life, they were available sometimes, other times busy with their normal job of arriving and leaving guests.

We had to wait, for days after hospital discharge because flights for the next few days were full. We were on standby, but this was so stressful...we might be able to fly tomorrow...oh no we can't the flight is full.
Stuck abroad I was so reliant on strangers and so reliant on the holiday company.

Not an experience I ever want to repeat.

Delatron · 27/03/2022 19:25

It must be awful having an ill child in a foreign country.

But statistically wise, from Covid? It’s unlikely.

Soon all free tests will be gone. What will everyone do then I wonder?

LethargeMarg · 27/03/2022 19:38

If you're going to Greece there are still quite a lot of rules about getting in including unvaccinated kids (over 5 years) would need proof of negative pcr - I've just looked after reading this thread as we are going in N the summer and wasn't sure what the rules are . Not quite as simple as some on this thread are implying and if others on the flight test positive you could have to quarantine on arrival

underneaththeash · 27/03/2022 20:41

You may all well be symptom free and negative by next Monday, you may not be.

If you're the sort of arsehole who would travel with a communicable disease that could make someone really, really unwell - chicken pox, measles, norovirus, you travel regardless. Otherwise you wait until you're negative or some of you go and the others wait.

NdefH81 · 28/03/2022 06:47

@underneaththeash

You may all well be symptom free and negative by next Monday, you may not be.

If you're the sort of arsehole who would travel with a communicable disease that could make someone really, really unwell - chicken pox, measles, norovirus, you travel regardless. Otherwise you wait until you're negative or some of you go and the others wait.

Would you travel with a mild cold?

Because a cold is also infectious
For most it would mean nothing
For others it may result in something very serious, like pneumonia

Mirrorball2022 · 28/03/2022 08:04

If you are not testing/ignoring symptoms and knowingly spreading covid. Just don’t complain when your kids can’t go to school as teachers off sick, the hospital where your long awaited surgery have cancelled surgery due to covid outbreak/staff off sick, the restaurant for your special birthday cancelled because of sickness, the hotel service is crap because staff off with covid. Some may be lucky enough to have a sniffle. Some still die. Plenty of people I know are still needing to be off sick as Ill in bed.

This is what’s currently happening all over the U.K. and what ‘living with covid’ or actually ‘pretending covid doesn’t exist anymore ‘ is what we are really doing. Herd immunity isn’t working thanks to variants etc and I know several people on 2nd/3rd infections and that the effectiveness of vaccines is at risk as the variants keep on coming.

No one’s calling for lockdowns or restrictions before they start but common sense in what is still a a pandemic.

chocolatesaltyballs22 · 28/03/2022 08:12

I'm full of cold and go on holiday on Sunday. Haven't tested and don't intend to. Am assuming it's a cold.

NeverForgetYourDreams · 28/03/2022 20:57

What did you decide to do?

worriedatthistime · 14/04/2022 18:52

@Watapalava they haven't moved the advise its the law thats changed guidance does not say ignore it and go out at all

toomanydogsandcats · 14/04/2022 19:00

@Watapalava

Honestly tho why the hell did you test knowing you’re going away?!
Because some people have morals?
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