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As difficult as it will be, I think you should treat your wife as if she has the virus, either until the 14 days period has elapsed or she tests negative. It really is just not worth the risk. Sorry.
I don't post this to scare you (assuming you've not already read it) but just to stress how dangerous this is. Just to warn, it does contain rather graphic description of illness and death:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/the-story-of-a-coronavirus-infection.html
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Have not read that one, but plenty of others. It's a bad way to go for sure.
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@HarmanMogul The advice should only be 7 days for her; AFAIK its 14 days is if you are cohabiting with someone who has symptoms (so 7 days for them to clear and then another 7 days for you to make sure you didn't catch it on the final day).
Does the friend have someone who could pick them both up instead?
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My story's a bit of an outlier. My dear wife is on tour in Sri Lanka with a friend. Lockdown is happening there big-time and the two of them have managed to bring forward their flight home to Wednesday. Assuming they get on that flight, arriving HRW Thursday, I can go pick them up in the car so they don't have to get a cab or, worse, a train back to town. But should I? I am in a supposedly vulnerable group (yeah, 70) and have been more-or-less staying at home for a week or so. But they will have transited two international air terminals so properly should isolate for a fortnight. So once my wife gets home, do the two of us have to live separate lives until a supposed all-clear? It's a truly weird conundrum.