Your checklist if you have tested positive.

Step 1: Focus on your health and get help if you need it

COVID-19 can be a serious illness. Call a doctor if your COVID-19 symptoms worsen. Go to hospital if it's an emergency.

If you tested positive using a rapid antigen test, you must report your result online, or call 1800 675 398. You don’t need to report your result if you tested positive from a PCR test. Read Reporting your result for more information.
You must isolate at home or in private accommodation for 7 days. If you’re living with others, isolate away from them as much as possible.
You and your family may be eligible for food and financial assistance during this period.

You must tell your household and household-like contacts you have tested positive for COVID-19. They are people you have spent more than four hours with in a house, care facility or accommodation.
They must immediately isolate for 7 days.

They must get tested on Day 1 of their isolation period or as soon as possible with:
- a rapid antigen test, or a PCR test if they can’t access a rapid antigen test.
They must get tested again on Day 6 of their isolation period with:
- a rapid antigen test, or a PCR test if they can’t access a rapid antigen test.

They can leave isolation on Day 7 if they received a negative result from the Day 6 test.
If they get symptoms at any time during isolation, they must use a rapid antigen test, or get a PCR test if they can’t access a rapid antigen test. They are strongly recommended to use rapid antigen tests on other days of their isolation period.

You must tell your social contacts you have tested positive for COVID-19. Your social contacts are people who you have had 15 minutes of face-to-face contact with, or spent 2 hours with, in the same indoor space.
- Your social contacts are not people from home, your workplace or school.

If they develop symptoms, they must use a rapid antigen test, or get a PCR test if they can’t access a rapid antigen test.
If they do not have symptoms, they are strongly recommended to use a daily rapid antigen test for 5 days.
People who are your household or household-like contacts cannot follow this advice. They must isolate for 7 days.

If you worked onsite while infectious, you must tell your employer/workplace you have tested positive to COVID-19.

Your employer/workplace will tell other staff who are workplace contacts that they must:
- use a rapid antigen test if they have symptoms, or get a PCR test if they can’t access a rapid antigen test
- strongly recommend using a daily rapid antigen test for 5 days if they don't have symptoms.
If you or your child attended an education facility while infectious, you must tell the education facility you have tested positive for COVID-19. The education facility will tell other students and staff who are education contacts that they must:
- use a rapid antigen test if they have symptoms, or get a PCR test if they can’t access a rapid antigen test
- for those at school who don't have symptoms, strongly recommend rapid antigen test twice-weekly during school weeks (daily for specialist schools) as part of the back to school plan.

For further information please see the Victorian Government Coronavirus website the link is below -

https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/checklist-cases