Counting days before/after traveling for COVID purposes

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You should consult the medical authorities and guidelines issued by the local government but generally, it can take up to 10 days for coronavirus symptoms to appear. Here is an excerpt from guidelines shared by UK government for inbound travelers.

The quarantine period starts the day you arrive in England and ends 10 days after the day you arrived. This period is necessary because it can take up to 10 days for coronavirus symptoms to appear.

Reference - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/how-to-quarantine-when-you-arrive-in-england

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Nothing related to a disease is an exact process where you will always test positive exactly some amount of hours after transmission. In the case where a test is a mandatory requirement, the requirements vary by country, and hopefully the local authorities will have precise instructions in such circumstances, but it's impossible to give a global view of the subject.

In the case where the test is a recommendation rather than a requirement, I'd go with the plain meaning of "after": if you arrive on a Monday, one day after is a Tuesday, so three days after is a Thursday and five days is a Saturday. Getting the test between Thursday and Saturday, then, seems to comply with the suggestion you describe in your post.

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