Are they tracking and tracing now?

[FurForksSake]

Just wondering if they have started any level of tracking where new cases are coming from. Anyone that's been tested recently, did you have to fill in a questionnaire about your movements or where you think you got it?

In some areas reported cases seem fairly low and so tracking and tracing would be quite easy and a good step forwards.

I find it shocking that as they know most cases are clusters and we aren't moving around that they stopped doing any work on this. I know Sheffield or Barnsley decided to do it for themselves to some extent.

I know at points there have been huge numbers of cases and it would have been impossible to contact trace in some areas, but that isn't the case for the whole country. Also just collecting data and looking at trends may have helped guide where to help.

I've seen the job advert for 150 contact tracers in Preston (6 days a week, minimum wage ish) but hope that the other 17850 are already being redeployed and trained...

Where did you see jobs advertised? I keep looking but seems like nothing in my area.

I googled and it came up. You have to live near Preston as that is where the in-house training is.

thanks :) Sadly I'm far away (!) Maybe they will use existing staff, no new recruits around here.

www.indeed.co.uk/m/viewjob?jk=05908549a3768c7e&from=serp

Just found this which is national.

Not in our case, tested last week, negative but DH still getting daily calls from the covid team as they think he has it. No questions about where he might have got it, he thinks work as a colleague who was off with symptoms for 2 weeks came back and DH was sat in the office with him for all of 10 minutes. Said colleague has now gone off sick again , worse than ever.
You would think that they would be collecting data from large employers to see how many staff have been off, that would give insight into infection rates in workplaces. DH works in a factory that runs 24/7 with 3 shifts and 500+ workers.

We've had so long to work on an even rudimentary way of collecting this information. It just seems wrong that we have just been not trying.

I hope your husband gets well soon. Are they going to tear him again?

Crap, isn't it? Abandoning track and trace in mid March was the stupidest decision ever and in contravention of the WHO.'s advice This government seems to be obsessed by controlling from the centre based on data and models. There's been no attempt to build a localised infrastructure which is what's going to get us back to normal life.

Exactly!

I just cannot understand why people aren't asking about their rationale.

I get that in London it may have been impossible and in other areas, but in the majority of clusters it would have been relatively easy and really help stop it.

that is very useful link, thanks!