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I think if you are contacted by track and trace by phone or the app, as a close contact of someone subsequently found positive, and having seen them within 2-days prior to their symptoms starting (or their + test), that current rules would be 10-days isolation for you regardless of any test result you have.
In fact, you would not strictly be eligible for a test unless you got symptoms.
That depends on your app having pinged your friend’s, or them having given your name as a close contact. I suppose if you don’t get a call then you have no legal compulsion to self isolate, but maybe a moral one?
Edit to say : sorry to hear that, I hope your friend recovers quickly
Mat-CR-
Should have said, I’m in the Netherlands. So getting a test hasn’t been a problem. Haven’t heard from contact tracing but my question was mainly on what’s right and not what’s required. What makes it worse is that I’m staying at my dad’s whose wife has only had her first jab. Current plan is isolating in the guest room regardless of today’s result and getting a second test 5 days after exposure, which is in line with local guidelines.
Making my question not as much of a question anymore, it took me a while to find the guidelines.
Tijmen
I had dinner on Monday evening with someone who got a positive test this morning, most likely from an exposure last Saturday. Test booked, but from what I’ve understood the probability of a false negative is too high to stop isolating even if it’s negative?