Close contact of all age groups in special education schools and acute care facilities should: This information applies to all close contacts 13 years of age and older. You no longer need to restrict your movements if you are in close contact, but you should isolate yourself if you develop symptoms. If you test positive for COVID-19 and you are not using the site to upload your close contacts, a contact tracer will ask you questions about the people and places you visited in the 48 hours before your symptoms began. If you are in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19, monitor for symptoms of COVID-19. Close contacts without COVID-19 symptoms do not have to self-isolate or restrict their movements. If you think you are a close contact but have not been contacted, you can call the COVID-19 helpline and let them know that you have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19. The HSE will send you a link in the contact SMS to request a PCR test. If your child is at least 13 years old, see the “What happens if I am in close contact?” section above. Close contact outside a household is when you have had personal contact outside your household within 2 metres of an infected person for more than 15 minutes. If your PCR test result is positive for COVID-19, the text includes a link to a website where you can download contact information for your close contacts. If you are not using the website, a contact tracker will call you to find out who you have been in close contact with. Contact tracing involves finding people who have been in close contact with someone who has contracted COVID-19. This work is done by contact tracers.

If you are a close contact, you will receive an SMS with a link to a website where you can provide your contact details. You will then receive an SMS with information about your free COVID-19 PCR test or free antigen test. They can stop restricting their range of motion if they have no symptoms and receive a negative PCR test result 10 days after their last contact with the person who tested positive for COVID-19. If you don`t know when it was, count the 10 days from the time you receive the text message from the contact close to the HSE. They count the 5 or 10 days of restriction of movement from the last contact with the person who tested positive. If you don`t know when it was, do so when you receive the text from the HSE stating that you are a close contact. If you download the COVID tracker app on your phone, you can be notified if you have been in close contact with another person who uses the app and has tested positive for coronavirus. You don`t know who the contact is or where the contact took place.

If you have a baby under 3 months of age who is in close contact, call your GP for advice. Acas has more advice for employers and employees on COVID-19. You should take the antigen test on the day you receive it and every other day until three tests have been done. You can watch a video on how to perform an antigen test with a child on the HSE website. Special guidelines apply to vaccination in Scotland and Wales. If you get a positive PCR or antigen test, you will need to self-isolate for 7 days from the date of your test or the onset of your symptoms. Both are day zero when you count your self-isolation days. You can stop the isolation after 7 days if you have not had any symptoms in the last 48 hours. Have the food or medication you need delivered to your home.

Ask someone to get these things for you if home delivery isn`t an option. Don`t go to the pharmacy yourself or shop around, as you may be endangering others. Here you will find instructions for advising and involving your employees. If you are at high risk of contracting COVID-19, you should continue to follow public health advice to protect yourself from COVID-19 and use your own judgment to stay safe in public and crowded places. COVID-19 remains a public health issue, and there are public health tips that businesses can use to reduce risks. You can check the current position and timeline for the country where you work: You should self-isolate if there is a high risk of transmitting COVID-19 (coronavirus) to others. You can stop the isolation if you just have a slight cough or changes in your sense of smell – these can last for weeks after infection. HSE no longer expects all companies to have taken COVID-19 into account in their risk assessment or taken specific measures. Employers can still choose to continue to consider COVID-19 in their risk assessments.

It is necessary to protect those who come into contact with the virus as a result of their professional activities.