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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:
TomAllenWife · 27/07/2021 20:08

I've deleted mine
It's a pile of shit
Enjoy your holiday
You have no obligation to isolate

YarnOver · 27/07/2021 20:09

Ignore it. Tons of us don't even have an app to be pinged on.

charliebear78 · 27/07/2021 20:10

Yup delete and ignore.
I have always refused to get the app.
We need to move on now-Do just that

User56439876 · 27/07/2021 20:13

It could be quite useful if you wanted a few days paid off work, many workplaces pay you if you isolate. Pingings did go up a lot when the sun came out...

Hugoslavia · 27/07/2021 20:16

Apparently half our local cricket team had to all isolate after being pinged. They were playing outdoors and we'll spaced out. However, they made the mistake of all leaving their phones in their bags in the same location.

Bard6817 · 27/07/2021 20:35

Nhs, Police, Magistrates, Courts Staff, Ambulance staff, been advised they don’t need to use it. ie. don’t use it.

what’s good for the goose, is good for the gander.

ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHaands · 27/07/2021 20:40

@Cookerhood

No, the app just pings you if your phone has been close enough to them for the required time. Trace & test is different - that it if someone tests positive & tells them that you are a close contact. Your family don't have to isolate unless you test positive. It's not the law to isolate if you are pinged by the app, it is if you are contarcted by Trace & Test.
This. The facts are here
Unsure33 · 27/07/2021 20:45

@Jmaho

e NHS Covid app will not be "tweaked" as one-third of those "pinged" go on to develop symptoms, a spokesperson for the prime minister has said.

As it is explained well on the gov website I would just use it as a warning and test to protect yourself and loved ones .

You don’t have to legally isolate.

peppermintpat · 27/07/2021 20:45

Who has the tracking on still??? I haven't since double jabbed. I have a job to do!

Unsure33 · 27/07/2021 20:47

@Bard6817

But there is good reason for that as people with covid are going through the nhs for example all the time .

Why can’t people use their common sense and use it as a warning and get LFT .

We have found them accurate if you do them properly . They picked up asymptomatic cases at work and if you use in conjunction with the app you have a chance of not passing it on .

Unsure33 · 27/07/2021 20:49

@peppermintpat

But you can still get covid when double jabbed !
You don’t legally have to isolate!
Use it as a warning!

Why don’t people read the facts.

harridan50 · 27/07/2021 20:57

Why bother having the app if you dont want to comply
I have never had the app
Test and trace a different matter

mylifestory · 27/07/2021 21:24

I dont know if anyone has mentioned bt if u scroll thru the app it will tell u day of contact. i had a ping recently when id onlt gone to my daughters school and not taken phone, plus id been in the car so nowhere else. Convinced its the young ppl next to me. Took a home test and Carr on bt i try not to mix with anyone at all at the moment. Plus we were at chessington when got pinged!!

SherbrookeFosterer · 27/07/2021 21:25

Do what Boris Johnson would do; drop your phone down the nearest drain and call the insurance company.

MrsJuliaGulia · 27/07/2021 21:48

Another one who’d ignore it, delete the app and move on with my life. I’d probably avoid hugging people for a few days though.

senoritarita · 27/07/2021 22:18

The app is just advisory. You haven't been called by T&T

Ignore it. Delete it and carry on your holiday

Talkwhilstyouwalk · 27/07/2021 22:32

I'd delete the app and forget about it...

Sweettea1 · 27/07/2021 22:40

Step 1: Delete the app.
Step 2:Carry on as planned.

Sweettea1 · 27/07/2021 22:42

@peppermintpat

Who has the tracking on still??? I haven't since double jabbed. I have a job to do!
Why have the app at all?
Pinklemonade1 · 27/07/2021 22:42

Delete the app. As long as you have done a few lateral flows and are fine, no symptoms etc . Keep doing what you should be doing with masks, social distancing etc and enjoy your hols!

ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHaands · 27/07/2021 22:47

@Hugoslavia

Apparently half our local cricket team had to all isolate after being pinged. They were playing outdoors and we'll spaced out. However, they made the mistake of all leaving their phones in their bags in the same location.
They didn't have to. It's advisory only. Not the same as Track and Trace which is still the law
Mermaid67 · 27/07/2021 22:57

@PuffItsGone

I’d delete the app and move on with my life
This!
Anonmummyoftwo · 27/07/2021 23:19

I deleted the app after it pinged me when I hadn’t even left the house for 7 days due to a separate illness. I’d do a test and if negative ignore and delete

123fushia · 27/07/2021 23:21

Just be careful. I was feeling unwell last week - summer cold and very tired I thought. Did 3 LFT to reassure myself - all negative. On Friday, cooked fried onions which I couldn’t smell, neither could DH. Booked PCR tests the next day - both came back positive and we have had to isolate since then. Very surprised as LFTs were all unreliable.
It’s out there and we all need to be responsible when required.

HalzTangz · 27/07/2021 23:28

Just do a PCR test, if 8ts negative carry on with your plans, if positive, cancel and isolate