Try this instead. See Figure 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Essentially, all close contacts must isolate for 7 days and need two swabs (PCR or RAT \u2013 whatever you can access) \u2013 one ASAP and another on Day 6 of the last day of contact. If either of the swabs are positive, you have contracted covid and your isolation period start counting again. Follow the protocol for someone who tested positive (see Figure 1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n If either or both the swabs test negative, you are released from isolation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No contact or just casual contact<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Nothing to do. Monitor for symptoms. Test if there are any symptoms. If test positive, follow Figure 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No known contact but unexpected positive RAT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Repeat RAT within 24 hours. If positive, need PCR to confirm. If negative the next day, consider the first positive as false positive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 9th January 2022, Dr Chee L Khoo You are considered a\u00a0Close Contact if you are living with someone who has COVID-19, have spent 4 hours or longer with someone in a home or health or aged care environment since they developed COVID-19. You are supposed to follow Protocol 2 orContinue 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":[],"class_list":["entry","author-chee1404","post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/khoo.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260","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=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/khoo.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2266,"href":"https:\/\/khoo.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions\/2266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/khoo.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khoo.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khoo.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/khoo.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CloseContact.jpg\")
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