Info Here’s what happens if your US return test is positive. A second hand account.

[brsnow]

Depend which country/place you are talking about.

Which countries require a test to leave?

 

[Centrals]

Now, the interesting part, relevant to this thread, is that there were others in our extended group on the trip who were staying an extra day, and we heard some tested positive and had to isolate for some number of days instead of taking their planned flights back to the US. I do not know any details of their isolation requirement and how many extra days they ended up staying. I think, "that could have been us." Maybe it would have been better if we had tested positive and isolated than tested negative and taken the flights home while contagious. Maybe we should have taken a PCR test even though an antigen test is acceptable. We had trip interruption insurance that I believe would have covered at least some days of hotel stay for isolation. My wife had brought a laptop to stay connected with work in case we were unable to return on our planned date. This wasn't entirely a surprise.

I would rather be sick at home than aboard.
As for infecting others, you had no idea that both of you were infected so no need to feel guilty. Both of you would well be infected by others during your transit back home!

https://abcnews4.com/news/local/how-long-does-it-take-to-test-negative-after-testing-positive-for-covid-19-07-26-2020

Might have to stay for months!!!!!!

 

[tkaelin]

On a recent trip out of the country, i brought the government provided self test kits as well as the Abbott test kit that we could use for our return testing. Picked up a cold while traveling and used the Gov. self tests kits to rule out covid. Tests were neg. Used the Abbott self kit for the return testing requirement which worked well. Tested neg and had the certificate within 10 minutes of finishing.

 

[Centrals]

Which countries require a test to leave?

Hong Kong is not a country but definitely require one.
Indonesia, Philippines. Two main diving destination in SE Asia for many divers. I am not too sure about Malaysia and Thailand.
As for Singapore:

ICA | Entering, Transiting and Departing

ICA is responsible for the security of Singapore's borders against the entry of undesirable persons, cargo and conveyances through our land, air and sea checkpoints.

safetravel.ica.gov.sg

You need to take one if it is requires in your destination country. Only at certain clinic is accepted.

 

[brsnow]

Hong Kong is not a country but definitely require one.
Indonesia, Philippines. Two main diving destination in SE Asia for many divers. I am not too sure about Malaysia and Thailand.
As for Singapore:

ICA | Entering, Transiting and Departing

ICA is responsible for the security of Singapore's borders against the entry of undesirable persons, cargo and conveyances through our land, air and sea checkpoints.

safetravel.ica.gov.sg

You need to take one if it is requires in your destination country. Only at certain clinic is allowed.

I can see they require a negative test from country of origin to enter, I can’t find any requirements to leave. Do you have a link? Seems illogical they would want to keep positive people in their country. Be interesting to read the logic. Singapore doesn’t require one , they are relying on you to follow the rules of your destination.

 

[tursiops]

Apropos the rules in Bonaire, this was just published in the Bonaire Reporter:

QUARANTINE LIFTED
Housemates or close contacts of an infected person no longer need to be quarantined from May 16 on. Public Health advises these people to pay extra attention to whether they develop any complaints. If this happens, they should get tested right away. It is important that housemates or close contacts of an infected person avoid contact with vulnerable people. And for a period of 10 days after they had contact with an infected person.
The rules for isolation do not change. People who become infected with the corona virus still go into isolation for at least five days. They may be released from isolation if they have no complaints for at least 24 hours on the fifth day. Infected persons who continue to have complaints will remain in isolation for a maximum of 10 days. Public Health employees keep in touch with people in isolation. The employees determine when a person can be released from isolation.

 

[NW Dive Dawg]

How would you know it is a false positive?

I wouldn't know... What I would know is that I would need to quarantine for who knows how long. The requirement to quarantine has nothing to do with if you actually have COVID or not. The requirement is entirely about whether the test shows pos or neg. I am double vaxed with double boosters. I've been back a week now and don't have COVID and never did as far as I know. Basically 95 percent of the people on the plane and in the airports were not wearing masks. The plane from Miami back to Seattle was full and my guess is that none of those people took tests prior to flying to make sure they were negative in order to protect others. All I did was to make the decision to not be tested prior to returning home...whichis basically the same as anyone who chooses to not test prior to going out into the public.

 

[tursiops]

whichis basically the same as anyone who chooses to not test prior to going out into the public.

Except, of course, for not following the current regulations.
And the fact that you made a personal decision to remove one layer of the layered defense other people have against your possible infection. The fact that you were NOT infected is irrelevant; you had no way of knowing that when you chose to possibly jeopardize others. Hindsight does not justify lack of regard for others.

 

[rmssetc]

All I did was to make the decision to not be tested prior to returning home...whichis basically the same as anyone who chooses to not test prior to going out into the public.

Yes, your choice not to test was equally a selfish as anyone else flying the domestic leg of your travel who decided not to self-test, with the added factor that you also chose to break the law (and announce that on a public forum). The argument that everyone else was doing it, so it must be OK if I do it too seems pretty juvenile to me.

I can completely understand not wanting to be quarantined while traveling.
I can completely understand choosing not to travel to avoid the possibility of being quarantined.
I can't understand the selfishness and lack of integrity that goes into a decision to travel, knowing the qualifications to return, and then deciding to circumvent those requirements.

 

[Lorenzoid]

All I did was to make the decision to not be tested prior to returning home...whichis basically the same as anyone who chooses to not test prior to going out into the public.

Flouting of rules aside, that's an interesting way to look at it. I can see your logic. However, I believe the rules may create (perhaps unrealistic) expectations in the traveling public. I let my guard down (see anecdote in a post above) in part because I felt slightly safer believing that everyone boarding my flight back to the US had received a negative test. Now, of course, the antigen tests are not all that sensitive, and the probability of false negatives is not as low as we would prefer, and as my anecdote showed, it is possible to test negative the day before travel and be at maximum contagiousness on the day of travel. And as your anecdote shows, there may be people who fake their negative test results. But I didn't fully appreciate that at the time and let my guard down during the trip home, whereas if I were going out in public at home, say, to the supermarket, I might still wear a mask.

I believe in my case I got infected the day before my flight and not on the flight, because others in my extended group who left on other flights tested positve at about the same time, but that doesn't affect my reasoning that some people may rely to some extent on a belief that everyone on their flight tested negative.