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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
From the NHS website I presume
The email sent by the junior manager says:
How Long you Need to Self- Isolate
If someone you live with has tested positive and:
They have symptoms- self isolate for 10 days from when their symptoms start
They have not had symptoms- self isolate for ten days from when they had their test
If they get symptoms while they're self- isolating the 10 days restarts from when their symptoms started
The 10 days does not restart if a different person you live with gets symptoms while you're self-isolating
No link in email annoyingly
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Link to self-isolation rules.
The "someone" can also be the different person.
Read it as "whenever someone in your household".
Think of the situation of where there is a long gap between the events. You've finished self-isolating because of the first person, but a couple of months later, the "different" person becomes infected. Are you suggesting you shouldn't have to self-isolate because you've already self-isolated before? Wouldn't make sense.
I can sort of see where the confusion might be in the rules.
The reference to "first person in the household's" is about the start day of self-isolation.
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Your isolation period includes the day the first person in your household’s symptoms started (or the day their test was taken if they did not have symptoms, whether this was an LFD or PCR test), and the next 10 full days. This means that if, for example, your 10 day isolation period starts on the 15th of the month, your isolation period ends at 23:59 hrs on the 25th and you can return to your normal routine.
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Perhaps they shouldn't have used the word "first".
It goes on to say.
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If you develop symptoms while you are isolating, arrange to have a COVID-19 PCR test. If your test result is positive, follow the advice for people with COVID-19 to stay at home and start a further full 10 day isolation period. This begins when your symptoms started, regardless of where you are in your original 10 day isolation period. This means that your total isolation period will be longer than 10 days.
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The next paragraph says.
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If other household members develop symptoms during this period, you do not need to isolate for longer than 10 days.
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Wouldn't make sense for that to apply other than where you have tested positive as set out in the previous paragraph.
The central point is that infections and infectious phases are not somehow synchronised within a household. Everybody doesn't get it simultaneously, and not everybody may get it at all. Whilst there is somebody in the household is in the infectious phase, there is a risk of somebody else in the household becoming infected. Doesn't matter whether that's the 1st, 2nd, or 20th person in the household in the infectious phase.
If somebody can be infectious for 8 days, they can pass it on on day 1 or day 8. Person A passes it on to B on that day 8. B then is still infectious 10 days later, and could then pass it onto C on the 18th day after the start.
Basically, self-isolate for 10 days from the last "event"(positive test or symptoms) in the household. Nothing else makes sense or will work.