Can anyone tell me the new rules for self isolation??

[greywintersday]

Please. Thank you!!

DD was in contact on Friday in school with someone who tested positive on Sunday.

Does she need to isolate or not??

I keep reading things but cannot work this out.

I think if it's a close contact but not from the same household it's isolate until you receive a negative PCR (whereas if its in the same household you have to isolate for the 10 days again)

Depends as well whether or not it's Omicron. I would wait for public health to contact to confirm that (a) it is counted as a close contact and (b) whether she can be set free by a negative PCR.

She probably won't be contacted at all. If she is then as its a non household contact she would be be able to take a PCR and not have to isolate.

Even if its a household contact then the wording is 'should' isolate rather than 'must'. You would still take a PCR test though

No. Not a close contact

Close contacts are defined as people who had contact in the 2 days prior to symptoms.
If your ds last had contact on Friday, it’s unlikely that she will be contact traced. Unless the case had symptoms over the weekend and delayed testing.
You will be told if she needs to test/isolate.

For children to be considered a close contact now they have to stay overnight so she won't be this and you won't be contacted.

You can if you wish PCR test her personally I only do it if a Dr insists now DS is traumatised!
It typically takes 3-5 days from exposure to return a positive test.
If she has no symptoms though then 10 days isolation from date of positive test.
Household contacts then should isolate for 10 days also in Scotland but as said this is not a legal requirement they just make it seem like it is!

We have just been through this with DD. Someone they sit with in class or share a lunchtime with is not defined as a close contact. That has to be a household member, someone they've had a sleepover with, or a carer.

The rest of us in the house were asked to take a PCR as a household contact. All negative. Some of her friends did LFTs, all negative. I also think that as a household contact you are advised to isolate rather than required to isolate which sounds like splitting hairs but does mean that you're not breaking the law if you run out of milk.

We got an email from school saying our daughter was a “low risk” contact with someone in her class. They advised us just to continue doing our twice weekly lft and that we would be contacted if she had been deemed high risk