The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) Regulations 2020

Requirement to isolate after close contact: child

9.—(1) This regulation applies where an adult (“A”) is notified by a contact tracer that a child (“C”) for whom A is responsible has had close contact with a person (“P”) who has tested positive for coronavirus.

(2) C may not leave or be outside the place where C is living before the end of the last day of C’s isolation unless regulation 10 or 11 applies.

(3) If requested by a contact tracer, A must notify the contact tracer of the address of the place where C is living.

(4) The last day of C’s isolation is the last day of the period of 10 days beginning with the day after the day which a contact tracer records as being the last day on which C had close contact with P before A received the notification referred to in paragraph (1).

(5) But where C is living in the same place as P, the last day of C’s isolation is—

(a) where P, or, where P is a child, a responsible adult (“R”) on P’s behalf, reports to a contact tracer the day on which P’s symptoms first developed, the last day of the period of 10 days beginning with the day after the day on which P, or R, reports as being the day on which P’s symptoms first developed, or

(b) where no symptoms are reported, the last day of the period of 10 days beginning with the day after the day of the test which led to the notification being given to P, or R, that P had tested positive for coronavirus.