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Pinged by app while on holiday what to do

153 replies

YellowSunshineSky · 26/07/2021 12:23

I'm with DH and kids. We're currently staying with DHs mum (arrived yesterday). Due to go and stay in a cottage near my mum tomorrow so we can visit her.

Then due to go on a holiday on way back on the 30th with a DC from another family joining us.

Just had a notification from the app saying I've been in contact with someone who's tested positive and to isolate until the 31st.

I've not been in close contact with anyone, just been in services to the loo yesterday on way up and in a shop this morning. Both times I stayed well away from people.

DH is out with his mum and so I can't yet discuss with him.

What would you do in this situation? My options are:

  • Give up on holiday and go home, go to other bit of holiday on 31st
  • Go to first cottage tomorrow but isolate there (do the rest of my family isolate too or just me as I got pinged?)
  • Ignore the app as I haven't been in close contact with anyone

We have LFT tests with us but they're in the car with DH. All four of us tested negative yesterday morning on those.

OP posts:
Original poster
YellowSunshineSky · 26/07/2021 12:51

Thanks so much everyone for alternative viewpoints and info. All v helpful.

I'm currently risk assessing.

App says exposure was Weds.

I went to an office on Weds so I've messaged the 5 people I met there to see if it's any of them. If it is, I'll isolate.

OP posts:
starfro · 26/07/2021 12:53

Delete the app.

Everyone is going to get Covid multiple times in their lifetime. Get jabbed and get on with life.

valnevavaxx · 26/07/2021 12:59

How do you travel to the office? Could it be from a train, or a coffee shop on the way in?

I think if it was someone you knew then you’d have been contacted by Test & Track directly, as they would have presumably given your contact details.

earthyfire · 26/07/2021 13:07

I'd ignore it and delete the app. I've never had the app, time to move on with life.

DiaryofWimpyMumm · 26/07/2021 13:10

I don't have the app and don't intend getting it. Ignore and enjoy your holiday

lannistunut · 26/07/2021 13:11

Irrespective of whether you have continue to use the app, you have been told that you have been in contact with a positive case for long enough to potentially catch the virus.

You need to isolate, because if you don't you are choosing to put other people at risk of catching it from you, and that is not the right thing to do.

Original poster
YellowSunshineSky · 26/07/2021 13:11

I drove to the office.

I spoke to two receptionists through a glass screen, all of us with masks, then went straight into a meeting room with 5 others. Of those others 1 has also been pinged. 2 don't have the app. Those 3 are not positive. Still waiting to hear back from 2 others.

The other one who got pinged thinks it might be from someone in the next door meeting room.

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BlueSurfer · 26/07/2021 13:13

@YellowSunshineSky

Do my family have to isolate too or just me? I assume just me, is that right?

So if I were to isolate at home my family could still go out and I'd need to stay well away from them in my room?

If that's the case then maybe we should go to the cottage and I'll isolate there as it'll be no different from me isolating at home.

But if you test positive and then pass it on to them, they will then have to isolate for ten days and you run the risk of being very ill miles away from home and not well enough to get back.
BlueSurfer · 26/07/2021 13:14

@YellowSunshineSky

Thanks so much everyone for alternative viewpoints and info. All v helpful.

I'm currently risk assessing.

App says exposure was Weds.

I went to an office on Weds so I've messaged the 5 people I met there to see if it's any of them. If it is, I'll isolate.

They don’t have to tell you if it was them and are fully within their rights to pretend otherwise if they want to. It’s why people have the app, so they can keep their medical history regarding covid private.
specialagentoso100 · 26/07/2021 13:20

It's not legally mandatory or enforceable for you to isolate.
So it's therefore pretty simple in my eyes.
You don't isolate, you enjoy your holiday!

Original poster
YellowSunshineSky · 26/07/2021 13:31

All 5 of the people I met - it's not them. I trust them to be being honest, I'm close to them and know them quite well.

3 of them also got pinged. None of them apart from me talked to the receptionists.

So it was someone in an adjacent meeting room who I didn't have contact with.

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flumposie · 26/07/2021 13:32

Delete the app. I was sat in a class with 2 pupils who tested positive but apparently no need to isolate . This happened on numerous occasions. So I've deleted the app as it's utter bollocks when I don't need to isolate as a teacher but do once outside the school and pinged by an app.

whynotwhatknot · 26/07/2021 13:34

The app isnt mandatory only if t and t contact you do u have to isolate

this is why food distrubutors and other workers have been told to ignore the app because theyre being pinged left right and centre

do you have any tests with you you can do for the next few days

userxx · 26/07/2021 13:39

@starfro

Delete the app.

Everyone is going to get Covid multiple times in their lifetime. Get jabbed and get on with life.

This 100%. Time to crack on.
Bagelsandbrie · 26/07/2021 13:40

Delete the app. Do lfts a few times over the next few days and just crack on.

MRex · 26/07/2021 13:46

@YellowSunshineSky

All 5 of the people I met - it's not them. I trust them to be being honest, I'm close to them and know them quite well.

3 of them also got pinged. None of them apart from me talked to the receptionists.

So it was someone in an adjacent meeting room who I didn't have contact with.

Ah, yes offices can be tricky. I'd probably distance from MIL / DM and do daily LFTs to be careful, but go to the cottage so the kids can get out and about.
LadyCatStark · 26/07/2021 13:47

Everyone else has deleted the app by now or is thinking about it, don’t be the one to have your holiday ruined when the chances are you haven’t got it.

Vanilla1Cookies · 26/07/2021 13:52

I’d carry on with my holiday and delete the app.

EveryFlightBeginsWithAFall · 26/07/2021 13:53

In this case I'd just delete the app

Carrott21 · 26/07/2021 13:53

I think you've done the right thing and used common sense. Delete the app.

sylbunny · 26/07/2021 13:56

People know that you can turn of contact tracing right? You don't have to delete the app entirely

lastcall · 26/07/2021 14:00

An adjacent meeting room.... where there was zero contact.

This is yet another reason I have refused to use the app.

Whammyyammy · 26/07/2021 14:08

Easy;

  1. Delete app
  2. Enjoy holiday
starrynight87 · 26/07/2021 14:09

I would go on holiday if you're all negative.

Cakeofdoom · 26/07/2021 14:21

Just ignore it and enjoy your holiday x