According to The Public Health guidelines, released earlier this week, if someone tests positive and you are a primary contact, you need to test for seven days rather than ten. (vaccinated)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Though the press release did not specify school children, it was stated that \u201cif a primary contact is a negative, unvaccinated child (under 18 years of age), they should conduct daily lateral flow tests (LFT) for seven days. They can attend school if daily LFT results continue to be negative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So rather than teachers and students testing on LFT for ten days upon a positive case in the classroom. They are now reduced to testing for seven days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There have not been any updates on the government\u2019s guidance documents for schools and parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The current COVID testing regulations for students are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Children under the age of 5: <\/strong>Regular twice-weekly LFT testing. If a student or teacher tests positive, classmates should continue with the twice-weekly testing. (No 7-day surveillance period.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Children 5-17:<\/strong> Optional twice-weekly LFT testing. If a student or teacher tests positive, classmates take LFTs daily for seven days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vaccinated children who test positive:<\/strong> Isolate at home for six days. A negative PCR test is required before returning to school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unvaccinated children who test positive:<\/strong> Isolate at home for nine days. A negative PCR test is required before returning to school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to The Public Health guidelines, released earlier this week, if someone tests positive and you are a primary contact, you need to test for seven days rather than ten. (vaccinated) Though the press release did not specify school children, it was stated that \u201cif a primary contact is a negative, unvaccinated child (under 18 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cay.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cay.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cay.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cay.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cay.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cay.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/cay.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cay.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cay.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cay.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cay.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}