They don't specify which symptoms, @wild edges. They just say "you can stop isolating after seven days if your symptoms are fully or mostly gone for the last 48 hours. It's ok to stop self-isolating even if you have a mild cough or changes to your sense of smell - these can last for weeks after the infection has gone." They also say you should wear a face covering and practise social distancing for three days after you stop self-isolating.
Unless you're a celeb in Strictly and then you can mix with everybody within the week
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
I'm in Ireland, @LunarSea, where they seem to realise Covid hasn't gone away... I'm still testing positive after 8 days. Boring.
Oh that sucks @Liriodendron (not the Ireland thing ) but at least you know you'll get better. We've managed to side-step it so far. Can't quite believe we got through the pre-vaccine stage without becoming gibbering wrecks though!
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Are you still supposed to report positive tests in the UK? It seems an obvious thing to do. Here we are encouraged to report symptoms too, to add to the sum of knowledge about Covid.
I'm intrigued by the change in my sense of taste. Some things still taste perfectly normal, while others (mostly foodstuffs with a bitter element to them) just taste awful. I really love very dark chocolate, but it tastes foul at the moment. Coffee isn't too good either.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Not everyone has access to tests in the U.K. as routine testing and free LFTs have stopped apart from for certain patients, some NHS staff etc. The only thermometer we have is hospital patient testing really, and that’s generally just for symptomatic in-patients. Numbers are fairly low in my health board, with a smattering of Flu.
It’s like a ‘who-dunnit’ in my wider family atm, as some have mild colds, some coughs and I have a sore throat AND cough. Nobody who has tested is COVID positive and nobody is ill enough to think Flu. Conclusion: a selection box of winter bugs? One difference from years gone by, before COVID (or B.C), is we are more inclined to isolate or semi-isolate - which is sensible imo.
We've never had free LFTs or routine testing here, @AuntyRach - but tests are readily available from pharmacies and there's a general understanding that it is a public spirited thing to test if we have Covid symptoms. I guess people who've had access to free tests are less likely to bother testing once the tests are no longer free... but it's good if they nevertheless stay away from others, at least.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Dropping this here in relation to the 'sudden deaths' paranoia that seems to be doing the rounds. The increase in deaths is correlated with covid, not the vaccine.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
Without seeing the Y axis of this graph it is rather difficult to follow the point being made. The difference between the top point and the lowest point of the trend could actually be a small number.
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Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
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Unless you're a celeb in Strictly and then you can mix with everybody within the week
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
I'm still testing positive after 8 days. Boring.
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
I'm intrigued by the change in my sense of taste. Some things still taste perfectly normal, while others (mostly foodstuffs with a bitter element to them) just taste awful. I really love very dark chocolate, but it tastes foul at the moment. Coffee isn't too good either.
Without seeing the Y axis of this graph it is rather difficult to follow the point being made.
The difference between the top point and the lowest point of the trend could actually be a small number.
Bee x
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime