How does the NHS Covid-19 app decide who should self-isolate?

Often the NHS app users receive intimation where the NHS app tells them to self-isolate for 6 days or for 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 12 days.

If you are informed by the NHS app that you would be having to follow a certain norm then you must look through the following;

NHS app telling me to self-isolate for 5 days. What to do?

– Self-isolate and do not get out of your homes even when very necessary. Ask friends and family to drop in food, medicines, and other utilities.

– Do not entertain visitors at home and whether friends, family, or any other near and dear ones during these times.

– Try to avoid as much contact as possible but any person who is living within your support system need not isolate unless you have the symptoms of COVID-19.

Your self-isolation would be from the day you last contacted a COVID-19 positive patient and the next ten days.

How does the NHS Covid-19 app decide who should self-isolate?

The NHS COVID-19 app decides who should self-isolate based on the reason you’re self-isolating.

– If you’re self-isolating as the app alerted you about someone near your vicinity being COIVD positive. The periods are fixed for every situation like ten days for the ones who live near COVID-19 positive patients.

– If one has symptoms and the user enters the same in the app, then it would first ask you for the days you have symptoms and then it will ask you to self-isolate for ten days from the date you first experienced COVID symptoms.

– If your results have turned out positive, when you ordered for a test from the app, so it means you will have to self-isolate till the 11th day of the month.

– If your test results are negative, then you can choose to self-isolate for some days as per the app’s directions.

Do I need to keep self-isolating if I have received a negative covid-19 test result?

If you have tested negative for COVID-19 then you need to self-isolate mandatorily, to ensure you and the others around you are safe.

The period for which you would need to self-isolate would be 10 days. It is to ensure that you wait for the entire incubation period of the virus in isolation even if your initial test results turn out negative.

What do I do if I’ve been exposed to someone who tested positive for covid-19?

According to the NHS app self-isolate app, there are a few things you need to do to ensure you’re safe even after exposure to a COVID-19 patient.

– Initial step would be to immediately self-isolate.

– Once done, book a COVID-19 test through the app.

– Conduct the test, and then make sure your app receives the result of the test conducted.

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