Just been pinged by Covid app

[HildegardeCrowe]

I’ve just been pinged by the Covid app and been told to self-isolate for 5 days. I’ve been double-jabbed and have absolutely no symptoms. Haven’t knowingly been in contact with anyone with Covid and haven’t used track and trace either for weeks. I’m mystified and am wondering what to do. What would you do?

@Hillary17 - if you haven't left the house in a week then you can't possibly have come into contact with anyone - or the virus. It must be a mistake.

I'd have carried on with my plans.

@Hillary17 if they’re high risk but still prepared to go out for a bottomless brunch, I don’t see how you’d be the one posing the risk since you’d not been anywhere to catch covid to pass on to them.

Delete the bloody app!

I did loss quite a bit of faith in the app when my neighbour had to isolate because I had covid. We're in a semi and I think put our phones on either side of the same wall. We'd had absolutely no contact

@Saoirse82

I got pinged to isolate back in January, DH the day before me and I gave him a right bollocking about being secretive about where he'd been. When I pinged the next day I was very sheepish, and I was baffled because I had left the house on the day I was meant to have been a close contact. Turns out our next door neighbours had covid and the phones had connected through the wall!

Yes this happened to my friend

Ive got it to log in to venues, though quite often i just give my name and telephone number as I don’t have my phone with me

@milveycrohn

According to todays paper's, the Bluetooth connects through walls, so neighbours are getting pinged, even when they have not left the house.

My mate got pinged because her neighbour tested positive. Due to the layout of their block of flats he doesn't even use any of the same entrances or communal areas.

@SmidgenofaPigeon Do you think high risk people should not leave their house? You know that they have to work now? A friend being considerate and thoughtful means high risk people can have some sort of life now, for whatever short amount of time that lasts with numbers going up again.

never trusted the app, amazed that anyone still using it.
Yabu for having it, not ignoring it.

I’ve been in close, prolonged contact with my son in law 3 times in the past week. He tested +ve yesterday (Wednesday). My contact was Monday, Sunday, Saturday and the previous Monday (I provide childcare for my grandchildren and he works from home). He has given my details to Track and Trace yesterday and they have yet to contact me.
Last time I was in contact with a +ve case they contacted me the same day as her result came through. I’d been in contact with her 2 days before she tested +ve. All the stuff online says I should self isolate for 10 days, but why haven’t I been contacted???

I don’t understand why you would have the app but then ignore it. Just delete it!

I posted similar about a week ago as I got pinged too and on the advice on here, I deleted the app and ignored it. I did do LFT's for the remainder of the 'isolation' period though.

What do you mean you've not used track and trace for weeks? Do you mean the contact tracing bit of the app? If so how on earth has it decided to ping you?!

A girl in our local paper got visited by the police to check if she was actually isolating. I don’t know how common that is (I’ve never had the app).
I would say that even though you’ve been jabbed, you can still spread Covid. I don’t know what you do in the nhs but it doesn’t feel ok to me to be potentially making vulnerable people ill.

I’m hearing lots more stories like this recently.

I would literally ignore it, if double jabbed and negative test

What's your aibu and why isn't this is the covid section?

You sound cross @BridgeOfLies

That app is rubbish. Mine never pings when working with someone who tests positive. Everyone else’s does. I want 10 days off paid lol

I’d ignore and delete the app, deleted mine a few weeks ago.

Can't you carry covid regardless of whether you're double vaccinated or not. I think you should isolate.

I don’t know why anyone uses the app at this point.

@Redcherries not at all, you’ve got the wrong end of the stick big time there.

The app is not legally enforceable at all, isolating for a random ping is unnecessary. I presume those that do get paid to be off from work? Or are lucky enough to be able to work from home?

I could never get the app to work on my phone. It crashed every time I opened it, despite having a new enough phone that I keep updated and deleting and reinstalling it a million times

My Mum’s friend was pinged a few months ago. She was isolating at home for 2 weeks before an operation and hadn’t been anywhere, got all her shopping delivered and hadn’t had anyone over.

She should have turned it off, but it hadn’t really occurred to her. The only thing she can think of is a neighbour had tested positive - but she lives in a detached house, with a huge garden so no neighbours within 2 metres of her.

I've deleted it. 2 pupils I taught are positive, they found out the next day. Never had to isolate once when this has happened, so bollocks to it all. Am taking tests regularly still.