Recovery from Covid

[Titus Adduxas]

Having just recovered from Covid the NHS tell us not to take a PCR test for 90 days, yet to get back into the UK from the USA we have to take a PCR test after two days, which of course we are quite likely to fail despite being Covid free.

When travelling to America you need either a negative test or a proof of recovery within the last 90 days. They seem to understand the basics that having had Covid quite recently gives you extra protection and you are highly unlikely to have Covid.

Is anyone else aware of whether in fact this will be changed in the UK any time soon; given the huge number of people that have now had Covid there must be plenty of people in my position.

[JDB]

Titus Adduxas wrote:

Having just recovered from Covid the NHS tell us not to take a PCR test for 90 days, yet to get back into the UK from the USA we have to take a PCR test after two days, which of course we are quite likely to fail despite being Covid free.

When travelling to America you need either a negative test or a proof of recovery within the last 90 days. They seem to understand the basics that having had Covid quite recently gives you extra protection and you are highly unlikely to have Covid.

Is anyone else aware of whether in fact this will be changed in the UK any time soon; given the huge number of people that have now had Covid there must be plenty of people in my position.

The 90 days isn’t an absolute; there are various exemptions and return to the UK after travel is one of them. I’m not sure there will be any rush to change the rules, but who knows. In terms of the added protection of recent infection, one of the issues in SA was the surprising rate of re-infection.

[Rhys]

I took PCR tests within 3 weeks of having covid over the summer and everything was fine. I think the number of people that continue to test positive is probably miniscule, but the NHS website mentions it just in case.

[JerrySignfield]

Take the test, if its positive then you can try to explain but if its negative then its a non issue, not much else you can do as they are not going to exempt you from testing.