The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) Regulations 2021

Notification of test results E+W

11.—(1) This paragraph applies to a private provider who administers or provides a test to P in the circumstances described in paragraph 10.

(2) The private provider must, [F1 within 48 hours of the time when the sample taken for the purposes of the test is received by the diagnostic laboratory] —

(a) notify P or, where paragraph 10(4) applies, Y by email, letter, or text message, of the result of P's test; or

(b) make P's test result available to P, or where paragraph 10(4) applies, to Y via a secure web portal,

in accordance with sub-paragraph (3).

(3) The notification of P's test result must include P's name, date of birth, passport number, or travel document reference number (as appropriate), the name and contact details of the test provider and P's test reference number, and must be conveyed using one of the following forms of words, as appropriate—

Form A: negative test result

Your coronavirus (COVID-19) test result is negative. You did not have the virus when the test was done.

You are not required to quarantine if you are travelling from a green-list country.

[F2 If you are travelling from an amber list country and are within the exempt category you are not required to quarantine or take a day 8 test.

If you are travelling from an amber list country and are not within the exempt category, if you took the test on or before day 2 of your quarantine period, you must continue to quarantine until you have completed the 10 day quarantine period and received a negative result for a test taken on day 8. If you took the test on day 8 you may stop quarantine when you have completed your 10-day quarantine period.]

You should self-isolate again if:

you get symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19) – get an NHS coronavirus (COVID-19) test from www.gov.uk/get-coronavirus-test and self-isolate until you get the results

you're going into hospital (self-isolating until the date you go in)

someone you live with tests positive

you have been traced as a contact of someone who tested positive

For advice on when you might need to self-isolate and what to do, go to www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19 and read ‘Self-isolation and treating symptoms’.

Form B: positive test result

Your coronavirus test result is positive. You had the virus when the test was done.

Even if you have not had symptoms of coronavirus, you must self-isolate for 10 days from the day after your test date. Your test sample may be genome sequenced to check whether you have a virus variant of concern or variant under investigation.

People you live with or have travelled with should also self-isolate for 10 days from the day after you took a test.

If you received a positive test result for the test taken you do not need to take any further tests. People you are travelling with [F3 , unless they are within the exempt category,] must still take a day 8 test if they have travelled from an amber list country.

You may be contacted for contact tracing and to check that you, and those who you live or are travelling with, are self-isolating.

You must not travel, including to leave the UK, during self-isolation.

Contact 111 if you need medical help. In an emergency dial 999.

Form C: unclear test result

Your coronavirus test result is unclear. It is not possible to say if you had the virus when the test was done.

You must take another test or self-isolate for 10 days from the day after your test date.

You may be contacted to check that you are self-isolating.

(4) Where—

(a) regulation 4 [F4 , 4ZA [F5 , 4ZB] or 4A] of the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010 applies in relation to the test provider; or

(b) if the test provider arranges with another person (“X”) for X to carry out any element of the single end-to-end testing service on their behalf, either of those regulations applies to X in the carrying out of that element,

the regulation applies as if it required the information described in sub-paragraph (5) to be included in the notification to [F6 the United Kingdom Health Security Agency].

(5) The information mentioned in sub-paragraph (4) is—

(a) the date on which P last departed from or transited through a category 2 country or territory;

(b) P's coach number, flight number or vessel name (as appropriate);

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(bb) P’s passport number or travel document number (as appropriate);

(bc) the test reference number given to P in accordance with sub-paragraph (5) of paragraph 10 (required circumstances for undertaking a day 2 test or a day 8 test);

(c) the country or territory P was travelling from when P arrived in England, and any country or territory they transited through as part of that journey;

(d) the date on which P undertook the appropriate test;

(e) whether the test is—

(i) a day 2 test for a category 1 arrival,

[F8 (ii) a day 2 test for an eligible category 2 arrival,

(iia) a day 2 test for a person who is neither a category 1 arrival nor an eligible category 2 arrival, or]

(iii) a day 8 test.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 8 para. 11(2) substituted (21.9.2021) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 9) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/966), regs. 1(4)(e), 16(3)(a)

F2 Words in Sch. 8 para. 11(3) substituted (19.7.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 6) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/865), regs. 1(2), 18(c)(i)(aa) (with reg. 23)

F3 Words in Sch. 8 para. 11(3) inserted (19.7.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 6) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/865), regs. 1(2), 18(c)(i)(bb) (with reg. 23)

F4 Words in Sch. 8 para. 11(4)(a) substituted (19.7.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 6) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/865), regs. 1(2), 18(c)(ii) (with reg. 23)

F5 Word in Sch. 8 para. 11(4) inserted (21.9.2021) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 9) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/966), regs. 1(4)(e), 16(3)(b)

F6 Words in Sch. 8 para. 11(4) substituted (1.10.2021) by The Public Health England (Dissolution) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/974), regs. 1(1), 8(2)

F7 Sch. 8 para. 11(5)(ba) omitted (30.8.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by virtue of The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 9) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/966), regs. 1(2), 16(3)(c)

F8 Sch. 8 para. 11(5)(e)(ii)(iia) substituted for Sch. 8 para. 11(5)(e)(ii) (19.7.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 6) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/865), regs. 1(2), 18(c)(iii) (with reg. 23)

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 8 para. 11 in force at 17.5.2021 at 4.00 a.m., see reg. 1(2)