The Ministry of Health has today updated its advice for those who experience COVID-19 symptoms more than 28 days after having had COVID-19.
If a person develops new COVID-19 symptoms, and it is 29 days or more since their previous infection, it is possible that they are experiencing a COVID-19 reinfection and they should get tested.
This reflects a change from earlier advice which was that people would not need to re-test if they had tested positive for COVID-19 within the past 90 days.
Anyone taking the test should upload their results to MyCovidRecord. Should they test positive, and it has been more than 28 days since they last had COVID-19, they will need to isolate for 7 days.