Isolation notification- can it be wrong?

[booslemondrops]

Looking for some help...

My OH has received an isolation notification via the covid app. Apparently he has come into contact with a positive case on Monday.

We both ventured out to our local undercover market to finish last minute Christmas shopping, both went to the same one stall. He has an isolation notification and I don't! Can this be a spurious notification?

Then he needs to isolate. If you are going to download the app then you need to follow the instructions if it asks you to isolate. I took the app off my phone.

@booslemondrops

Looking for some help...

My OH has received an isolation notification via the covid app. Apparently he has come into contact with a positive case on Monday.

We both ventured out to our local undercover market to finish last minute Christmas shopping, both went to the same one stall. He has an isolation notification and I don't! Can this be a spurious notification?

Yep, certainly could be. Chap in my team at work has been notified a few times, he hasn't been anywhere. From what I've read, you don't have to follow what the app says anyway.

from what I've read, you don't have to follow what the app says anyway

Pretty pointless having the app then 🙄

I suppose any system could fall prey to human error.

Why do you assume that's it's his that's wrong? It could be you who has not received a notification when you should have done

@3littlewords

from what I've read, you don't have to follow what the app says anyway

Pretty pointless having the app then 🙄

As far as enforcing self isolation, yes it is, because you can't be identified through it, so they can't enforce it.

Maybe you were just out of reach and he wasn’t, but he should now isolate.

Thanks all, I know I'm negative as have to test myself regularly for work.

@booslemondrops

Thanks all, I know I'm negative as have to test myself regularly for work.

If exposed on Monday, then you cannot possibly know you are negative when still only 3 days into the incubation period

This happened to my sister in law, she’d only been to Tesco with her husband and she got the isolation notice and he didn’t.

She did the isolation of course but when out of isolation spoke to next door neighbour who had been isolating due to having Covid so she thinks the Bluetooth just picked up being so close to the neighbour? Even though she hadn’t spoken to her/come into contact with her? Made more sense than Tesco since you don’t scan the app there either I don’t think,

By negative I mean the test I did yesterday was negative

Yes, and at only 3 days since potential exposure, that does not tell you that you have not got it, as it is far too early in the incubation period to know.

Unless of course you meant exposure on previous Monday (14th) in which case yes, at 10 days post exposure you can end SI irrespective of whether you have tested or not.

@booslemondrops

By negative I mean the test I did yesterday was negative

If you were exposed on Monday, then a test done yesterday won't necessarily pick up an infection.

If it's a lateral flow test then they miss 40-60% of cases anyway.

At the very least he should isolate - otherwise you may as well both delete the app!