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How does track and trace work?

43 replies

ssd · 18/05/2021 23:18

Im asking specifically how do they know who the person testing positive had contact with? I know they ask the person, but if the person says 'i was working in xyz (retail store) with lots of people ', would track and trace contact the store, or would they just ask the positive person to provide a list of people they remembered?

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PrincessNutNuts · 18/05/2021 23:34

They ring up the numbers you provide.

There's no tracing.

ChristmasCovid · 18/05/2021 23:42

They ask you if you have been in contact with anyone you can’t identify or don’t have contact details for. If you answer yes to that they will ring the store.
Hth

choosername1234 · 18/05/2021 23:53

No idea. There was no contact at all when DS tested positive

LizzieMacQueen · 18/05/2021 23:57

Is that a store that you work in @ssd ?

Last summer a local lad had played tennis 48 hrs before testing positive. The T&T team contacted the club secretary who then emailed all members. But there was no 'drill down' as to which court/what time. This was in Scotland.

Doomsdayisstillcoming · 19/05/2021 01:43

It doesn’t.

EvilOnion · 19/05/2021 01:57

It doesn't.

starrynight21 · 19/05/2021 02:15

It is appalling to read these comments. I'm in Australia and we do track and trace everywhere. You have an app on your phone, and whether you go to a shop or the library or a cafe, you just tap your phone on a reader at the entrance and then when you leave. The reader records when you were there, and if you test positive they can automatically upload the details of everyone else who was there at that time. Simples.

ChocOrange1 · 19/05/2021 02:24

It doesn't work.

TheTeenageYears · 19/05/2021 02:44

Even now the system is totally broken. It's costing an absolute fortune, interesting that all things Covid even government related pay above the national minimum wage for people with zero experience. The left hand has no idea what the right hand is doing. The U.K. are world leaders in sequencing for Covid but that is where the excellence ends. All the rest of it is just a total shit show.

GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat · 19/05/2021 02:46

@starrynight21

It is appalling to read these comments. I'm in Australia and we do track and trace everywhere. You have an app on your phone, and whether you go to a shop or the library or a cafe, you just tap your phone on a reader at the entrance and then when you leave. The reader records when you were there, and if you test positive they can automatically upload the details of everyone else who was there at that time. Simples.
Well we have this too but not every human contact you make is going to be in a place you can scan in at. Plus the app isn't law, not everyone has a smartphone.
SakuraEdenSwan1 · 19/05/2021 02:51

Track & Trace does not work, I get an alert a few months back telling me to isolate etc etc, only I had not been out the house in a year nor my kids due to being ECV!

ThornAmongstRoses · 19/05/2021 06:05

My FIL and BIL have both had Covid and T&T didn’t call either of them to ask about contacts.

newnortherner111 · 19/05/2021 07:21

Locally run schemes seem to work as happened in Liverpool when they did surge testing, not sure how.

The one run by Dido Harding does not, by all accounts.

Chunkymenrock · 19/05/2021 07:25

Please call it the correct name. It's TEST and Trace. It's been a complete mess unfortunately.

reesewithoutaspoon · 19/05/2021 07:27

It doesnt. My DD had covid at christmas (not discovered until she had returned to Scotland). Despite her giving my details as a possible contact, track and trace could not and I quote "Send texts over the scottish border". This meant I had no official self isolation alert and therefore would have been expected to go to work. Fortunately I was on annual leave I had access to LFT and not back into work for 10 days so I could comply anyway, but another member of the family worked in a warehouse and his boss told him he had to go to work as he had no official message from T&T and would lose his job if he stayed off.

Alfaix · 19/05/2021 07:31

If you test positive they ring you every day and read you a threatening script about how you must self isolate (I am - I don’t want to spread the bloody thing!). They seem fairly useless.
I spent an hour and a half on the phone with them and they worked out that DS best friend, my Dad, DS swimming teacher and DS school bubble must all self isolate. They all already were because I had told them.

BikeRunSki · 19/05/2021 07:44

We do have something similar in England (not sure about the wider UK & NI) but it’s not compulsory.

dementedpixie · 19/05/2021 07:56

@ssd I think you're in Scotland and we have Test and Protect instead. And it's Test and Trace in England. Track and Trace is a Royal Mail service.

I imagine it depends on the contact you had with others. Its supposed to be 15 minutes under 2m that counts as contact or a couple of minutes within 1m. I dont know if they go as far as to contact the company or not.

FinallyHere · 19/05/2021 08:01

One key weakness about the version used in England is that you swipe in but not out, so the records only show the whole day you were there ... not the hours or minutes

Who would have thought it.

ChristmasCovid · 19/05/2021 08:02

When (if) you test positive, you are sent a link to enter details of anyone you have been in contact with - you have a limited amount of time to complete it.. if you complete online you will not get a call asking for contact details.
if you don’t fill it in they call you to collect details.
If you have been in contact with someone you can’t identify they contact the organisation you were at directly.
Most people do not use the app although all venues should insist on it or take written details - some don’t bother.

Temp023 · 19/05/2021 08:07

I did wonder what would happen if someone sitting a metre away from me, facing the other way, outside a tea shop had Covid and I was told to isolate, or the waitress who served me for less than two minutes in her visor. Now it’s indoors, still would ignore T&T unless it was someone I knew I had spent significant time with. Even then, I’m more likely to test daily and get on with my life because I’ve had Covid and 1 dose of vaccine.

shewalkslikerihanna · 19/05/2021 08:18

@ChristmasCovid

They ask you if you have been in contact with anyone you can’t identify or don’t have contact details for. If you answer yes to that they will ring the store. Hth
Genuine question If they ring a store The store won’t know who has been in. It seems like all smoke and mirrors to me.

Like yesterday we sat outside at a table. Cafe was closing but said they were serving drinks and cake.
This was shouted across to us from the kiosk window.
Then a waiter came to clean the table and asked us to go to the window to order and please wear a mask.

We are outside ffs!
For the sake of peace dh did as he was told
Then they came back with the ridiculous t and t

Honestly, this farce has gone on long enough

Alfaix · 19/05/2021 08:27

If a child tests positive they ring you though, I did my own online but had to speak to them re DS.

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ssd · 19/05/2021 08:34

Its about working in a shop. If i work in a shop in a different area as normal and one of the staff in that area tests positive, if they are contacted they wouldn't be able to name me as they dont know me. So i wondered if the contact handler would call the shop to get more details.

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dementedpixie · 19/05/2021 08:42

Surely they will be given your name. Will you not introduce yourself to anyone?

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