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Do you think we will be contacted by Track and Trace?

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Liveonyournerves · 15/07/2021 09:24

My DD spent a couple of hours in the park, playing pretty much socially distanced games with an adult who has tested positive with at home tests. They are waiting for the PCR result. I've taken her out of school but I was told that track and test will decide if she's deemed a risk. Is that true? That she might not have to self-isolate for the 10 days?

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Whinge · 15/07/2021 09:27

It's test and trace.

If it was outside, socially distanced I would say your chances of needing to isolate are pretty much zero.

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Liveonyournerves · 15/07/2021 09:28

Sorry! Test and trace

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Youdiditanyway · 15/07/2021 09:33

Think it depends how close you were to them and the length of time too. If you were socially distanced I don’t imagine they’d pick up on it so you should be ok. It’s generally if you’ve sat next to someone for a while.

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Liveonyournerves · 15/07/2021 09:42

Thanks very much

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Pinnerbrat · 15/07/2021 09:42

Depends if that adult tells them they were in close contact.

NorfolkEnchance · 15/07/2021 10:15

Wouldn't count on it, I was within 1m for over an hour (although wearing masks) the day before a positive test and heard nothing from them, even when I've called they've never bothered to call back when they've said they will.

NotJustAnyOldDog · 15/07/2021 10:32

But as an adult you know you were a close contact. So you isolate. It really is as simple as that. You don’t need a phone call to tell you because you already know.

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Liveonyournerves · 15/07/2021 10:37

I'm not talking about an adult - I assume @NotJustAnyOldDog that wasn't directed at me?

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SpringRainbow · 15/07/2021 10:42

Socially distanced AND outside I wouldn’t have thought she would have to isolate no.

NotJustAnyOldDog · 15/07/2021 10:57

@Liveonyournerves

I'm not talking about an adult - I assume *@NotJustAnyOldDog* that wasn't directed at me?
Sorry. No. It was the poster above me who knew they were a close contact.
Cooldryplace · 15/07/2021 11:02

IME Test and Trace aren't interested in outdoor contact.

I gave lots of details when I tested positive. No one was contacted because they were all deemed to have been in Covid secure environments (hairdressers and gym) outdoors or not closer than 1m for more than 15 min.

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Liveonyournerves · 15/07/2021 11:05

Oh, that's encouraging @Cooldryplace

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NorfolkEnchance · 15/07/2021 11:11

And I have isolated even though legally I don't have to unless contacted. Merely pointing out that T&T are bloody useless so don't expect them to call.

Cryalot2 · 15/07/2021 11:14

The whole thing is crazy.
Last year we were on a flight to Jersey which someone tested positive. It was established that we were not near them on the flight and we used different entrances and exits yet we had to isolate in hotel and fly home on a specified flight .
If you know your dc was well distanced and it was outside they should be ok , but the rules seem to vary .

Cooldryplace · 15/07/2021 11:17

I'd been out and about quite a bit (it was in those weeks before Christmas when we thought we were coming out of it and then we weren't) but I'd followed all the rules, so no one, except those I live with, was considered a close contact.

For me, now, this is the overwhelming reason to keep complying, to avoid having to isolate.

Cooldryplace · 15/07/2021 11:20

@Cryalot2

The whole thing is crazy. Last year we were on a flight to Jersey which someone tested positive. It was established that we were not near them on the flight and we used different entrances and exits yet we had to isolate in hotel and fly home on a specified flight . If you know your dc was well distanced and it was outside they should be ok , but the rules seem to vary .
That makes sense to me, in an environment where you're all breathing the same recycled air
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Liveonyournerves · 15/07/2021 11:51

@Cooldryplace, yes we are also complying for same reason. I've hardly been out as I don't want to self-isolate. That's also why we asked DD to meet adult in park to mitigate risk...

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lanthanum · 15/07/2021 12:03

@Cooldryplace

IME Test and Trace aren't interested in outdoor contact.

I gave lots of details when I tested positive. No one was contacted because they were all deemed to have been in Covid secure environments (hairdressers and gym) outdoors or not closer than 1m for more than 15 min.

How are the hairdressers and gym "covid secure"? My hairdresser is doing everything they can to minimise risk, but there's no way you could say it's covid secure. I have a suspicion that they're just defining places as covid secure for convenience.
Cooldryplace · 15/07/2021 12:14

How are the hairdressers and gym "covid secure"? My hairdresser is doing everything they can to minimise risk, but there's no way you could say it's covid secure. I have a suspicion that they're just defining places as covid secure for convenience.

That's exactly what covid secure means - that the stipulated mitigations are in place. No one believes they prevent transmission altogether.

AppleKatie · 15/07/2021 13:02

My experience of test and trace/PHE’s advice is that it varies both over time and depending on exactly who you speak too…

That said the tone in recent weeks has been much more liberal in general and with a following wind you might not need to isolate with outdoor mainly socially distant contact.

AppleKatie · 15/07/2021 13:03

Oh and yes, ‘Covid secure’ means ‘has followed industry guidelines well enough’ it certainly doesn’t mean ‘transmission zero’.

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