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Form B: positive test result 
Your coronavirus test result is positive. You had the virus when the test was done. 
 
If you have not had symptoms of coronavirus, you must self-isolate for 10 days from the day after 
your test date. If you have symptoms of coronavirus , you must self-isolate for 10 days from the 
day your symptoms started, if earlier than when you took your test. 
 
People you live with or are travelling with should also self-isolate for 10 days from the day after 
you took the test. 
 
You may be contacted for contact tracing and to che ck 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, by law, continue self-isolating for the r emainder of your self-isolation period as an 
international arrival travelling to the UK from an amber-list country, territory or region. You may 
be contacted to check that you are self-isolating. 
 
If you want to shorten your self-isolation period you will need to take another test for international 
arrivals from amber list countries, territories or regions. For more information, go to 
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-test-to-release-for-international-travel. 
 
(4)  The test provider must, on request, provide a const able or any other person employed in or 
for the purposes of any police force, with— 
(a)  P’s passport number, or travel document reference number (as appropriate); 
(b)  P’s test result; 
(c)  the date on which P undertook the test; 
(d)  the date on which the test result was notified or m ade available to P or X in accordance 
with sub-paragraphs (2) and (3). 
(5)  Where— 
(a)  regulation 4 or 4A of the Health Protection (Notifi cation) Regulations 2010(a) 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 beha lf, either of those regulations applies to 
X in the carrying out of that element, 
                                                                                                                                            
(a) S.I. 2010/659; regulation 4 was amended by S.I. 2 013/235, 2020/1175, 2020/764, 2021/150 and regulation 4A was inserted 
by S.I. 2020/1175.