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Just got latest ONS results back. I'm negative but MiniGB tested positive. Mrs GB hasn't got her result back yet.
However, it's not very helpful for us (*) as today is the 10th full day after we did the swabs (24th December) so nothing we can do now. Unsurprising given the Christmas holidays.
If we'd known (or any of us had tested positive on a LFT - which we weren't doing) then we/she may not have met people in the pub on Christmas Day, gone to a big family party on Boxing Day, gone to a cafe and a pub on the 28th, gone to the ballet on the 29th, visited my elderly parents 30th/31st, gone to the pub on 31st and then out for a meal, gone for a sleepover on the 1st, met friends on the 2nd, or gone back to school today (3rd).
Current guidelines say:
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If a child or young person aged 18 or under tests positive for COVID-19, they should try to stay at home and avoid contact with other people for 3 days. This starts from the day after they did the test.
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(Luckily that means she was hopefully not infectious when we went to see my parents...)
Also no idea if she was ever infectious enough to trip an LFT. The PCR tests from the ONS are obviously way more sensitive...
No symptoms to speak of (we've all had coughs and sniffles on and off for the last few months it seems), second time she's tested positive asymptomatically, she's had all (two) jabs that an otherwise healthy 13yo can have. Her last day of school was the 16th so it's unlikely to be from that, but she did a fair amount of stuff between then and the 24th though.
* I get that it's a country wide prevalence study, not a testing programme for individuals.