Track and trace

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Just had the call as DD aged 5 tested positive on pcr yesterday. I was expecting a more thorough conversation on limiting exposure to other people. He said:

• 2 year old DS can still go to nursery and doesn’t need daily negative LFTs
• none of the rest of us need to do a pcr and it wasn’t mentioned whether we need to do daily LFTs
• said my DD needed to isolate for 10 days then changed his mind when I pointed out it’s been reduced to 7 days if negative on LFT on days 6 and 7.
• asked if she went to any ‘activities’ but didn’t ask if we’d seen any friends/family in the spell before she developed symptoms.

Really odd- I was expecting it to be a clear and firm conversation about daily testing and isolating but he sounded a bit unsure and I’m not convinced he gave the right advice.

Obviously we are doing daily LFTs and we’re not going out anyway but if this is the new approach there’s much less onus on contacts to ensure they’re negative before going about their daily business. I’m keen to hear what others experienced from T&T?

I had the same this morning as dd15 came up pos on lft Monday night, pcr yesterday results back this morning and call from t&t about 2 hours later! Gave them my parents info as they had been in the house over the weekend/Monday morning, but we had already told them and they're ok with doing daily lfts to check. But when they asked about 'activities' I told them she had been at work sat/sun and they never even asked any details about that!

And it was only when I asked about the new 7 day thing that I was told yes she could test on 26th/27th and if neg come out of isolation on the 28th rather than the 31st.

Me and dh are double vaxxed (were trying to get a local booster!) But have both had texts saying to isolate and get pcrs unless exempt, he's self employed and works outside so socially distances anyway but did have a panic when he read the text saying he had to legally isolate! Updating the texts would be nice so as not to cause that panic!