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You won't be flying if you test positive!Can anyone tell me what happens if we test positive in Santiago before flying home Is it simply a case of self isolating at a hotel and then a retest at a later date ?
cheers
Mick
Are you sure of that? If someone has tested positive through a PCR test and has been infected with Covid-19 and has quarantined for the 10 days required by Spain and is then symptom free, PCR re-tests are rarely done because by their very nature, PCR tests can still give a positive result for weeks and weeks after recovery from the illness. Up to 3 months of positive test results are not unusual.Most of the time your retest will be a PCR-Test, that will last up to 2 days after taking your sample.
Where do you see that? I can only see that Spain requires 10 days of quarantine after a positive PCR test and that they will issue a certificate of recovery at the earliest 11 days since the first positive test (mínimo 11 días después de la realización de la primera prueba diagnóstica NAAT con resultado positiv).You have to stay isolated for 5-14 days, depending of the order of the sanitary office.
Can anyone tell me what happens if we test positive in Santiago before flying home Is it simply a case of self isolating at a hotel and then a retest at a later date ?
cheers
Mick
silly answer when it could be a serious situation.Buy some water wings and start swimming!
Sorry, I didn't think it was a serious question, hypothetically.silly answer when it could be a serious situation.
A non-vaccinated colleage of mine was found positive and had to stay at least 5 days in isolation in Valencia this summer. She was tested negative after 5 days and was free to leave.Where do you see that? I can only see that Spain requires 10 days of quarantine after a positive PCR test and that they will issue a certificate of recovery at the earliest 11 days since the first positive test (mínimo 11 días después de la realización de la primera prueba diagnóstica NAAT con resultado positiv).
I beg to differ. The question is not about care giving if you get ill.There are professional care givers in Santiago much better prepared to answer a question like this than someone's random opinion on this Forum, for sure!
I totally disagree with you and I appreciate your opinions most of the time but there are people on this Forum who are not well informed and spreading rumors instead of the truth.I beg to differ. The question is not about care giving if you get ill.
It is about estimating the time you may have to stay in a neighbouring country, and, possibly, having a rough idea of how things work in a country where you don't speak the language. Anyone who is vaccinated and travels within Europe right now, and plenty of people do, tries to figure these kinds of things out before departure, and believe me, it is more promising to find accurate information when you are not left on your own with these websites but can talk to others. On the phone or over a cup of coffee, btw.
Should one get Covid, how to deal with health, and how to deal with public health policies/regulations are two very different things. And there are informed posters here about the latter, @Kathar1na being one of them. (Just to be clear - regulations are not political opinions, but policies that can be verified and cited. And for someone with a positive test, they are tangible determinants of what they can and cannot do.)I would never consult an open forum like this for my health or political opinions.
but I don't think people can tell the difference any more. We have lost our compassAdmittedly there are plenty of people just offering biased opinions and misinformation, too, but as far as covid regulations it's pretty easy to tell the difference.
I am confident that the OP was asking a question about public health procedures, and was not asking about medical treatment options. The former has been answered as well as we can on the forum, and the latter is not an appropriate topic for extensive discussion here.If I tested positive and needed medical treatment