29th December 2021, Dr Chee L Khoo<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You must be pretty confused by now about what you are meant to do if you come into contact with someone who has tested positive or indeed, you end up being positive yourself. The rules for testing and isolation is constantly changing but as of today (29th December 2021), these are the rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
1.Casual contact<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n You are a\ncasual contact if you have come into contact with a COVID-19 positive person\nfor a short period of time. You might find out through your workplace,\nyour education facility, or directly from the COVID-19 positive person. You\nneed to consider the duration of contact, how close you were to that person and\nwhether either or both had masks on the whole time. You will not be contacted\nby NSW Health if you are a casual contact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What must you do?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Casual contacts who have a rapid antigen test\n(RAT) each day for the 7 days after their last contact with a COVID-19 positive\nperson, are not required to have PCR tests or self-isolate as advised in this\nguidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You should monitor for\u00a0any symptoms <\/a>for at least 14 days after your last contact with a COVID-19 positive person. If you develop symptoms at any time, isolate and get tested again as soon as possible, even if you have already received a negative test result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Close contact<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n You may be\ncontacted by NSW Health that you are a close contact of someone who tested\npositive. You may have been informed by a friend, a family member or a\ncolleague at work that you were exposed as a close contact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What must you\ndo?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If you live with a person who you cannot keep\nseparated from (e.g. a child or carer where alternative arrangements cannot be\nmade), they do not need to self-isolate with you, but they should not\nattend high-risk settings (health care, aged care, disability care, early\nchildhood centres, primary school and correctional facilities) during your 7\nday self-isolation period. If they work in one of these settings, their\nemployer may do a risk assessment to allow them to return to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. If you test positive for covid-19:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n You must self-isolate for 10 days from the day\nyou were tested (not when you think the day of exposure is)<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When can I leave isolation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n No symptoms on Day 10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n You can only leave self-isolation after 10 days if you have no symptoms in the 72 hours before your 10 days<\/strong> is finished. Even if you have no symptoms in these 72 hours, you must still continue to self-isolate for a full 10 days. You will receive an SMS from NSW Health after 10 days but you do not have to wait for this SMS to leave self-isolation if it has been 10 days since you were tested.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still symptoms on Day 10?<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n You can be released from isolation after 14 days provided you don\u2019t have fever for the previous 72 hours, there have been substantial improvement in your respiratory symptoms and you are not immunocompromised. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you still have symptoms in the 72 hours before\nyour 10 days is finished, please call the NSW Health COVID-19 Care at Home\nSupport Line on 1800 960 933 for further advice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 29th December 2021, Dr Chee L Khoo You must be pretty confused by now about what you are meant to do if you come into contact with someone who has tested positive or indeed, you end up being positive yourself. The rules for testing and isolation is constantly changing butContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[14,21],"class_list":["entry","author-chee1404","post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-covid-19","tag-covid-19","tag-isolation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/khoo.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/khoo.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/khoo.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khoo.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khoo.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/khoo.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251,"href":"https:\/\/khoo.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions\/2251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/khoo.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khoo.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khoo.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}