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If you are positive:
1. Think about the time period.
Contacts only include people you were close to starting from 48 hours (2 days) before you started to feel sick (or tested positive) until you started to isolate. This is the “infectious period” (when you are contagious), which means the window of time when you can spread the infection to others.
It does not include people you saw 3 or more days before the start of your infection.
For example, if you start to have a cough on Monday and test positive, you need to tell everyone you saw on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. You do not have to tell the people you saw last week on Thursday and Friday, because you would not have been infectious then.
How to list your contacts: Check your phone/texts/inbox and social media to help remember what you have been up to in the last few days.
2. Think about what you did with those people.
List people who you:
You do not have to include people who you had only a short contact with (e.g. 5-10 minutes talking) or if you were in a place where you and the people around were wearing medical masks the whole time (e.g. working at the clinic).
3. Let your contacts know that you tested positive for COVID-19.
These people should self-isolate until they can get tested.
What can I tell my contacts?
“I need to tell you something. I just tested positive for COVID-19. Since we just saw each other, I’m worried it could have spread to you when we were together. You should isolate and get yourself tested as soon as you can. I’m sorry for the bad news, I didn’t want this to happen. I hope you are doing ok.”