Covid Track N Trace

[eve1974]

... if for eg we’d been to a pub, left our contact details and some other person, (there on same date as us) later tested Positive.... does everyone on the list that day get a text? A phone call? What? Just curious is all

[fiction-factory]

Should do-that's the idea of test and trace

[eve1974]

Just wondered if anyone on here has been contacted via this method? I guess there’s no reason why it shouldn’t work ... must have a quite a few folk already contacted “if” (??) the R rate is growing as much as they say?

[woofgang]

eve, it seems like the problem with spread is arising through contacts in the home and not in pubs and cafes which shows the use of test and trace as a tool for knowing where control need to be exercised

[Buenchico]

Contact tracers use a mix of phone calls, texts and (where a person has provided an email address) emails. See 'When we contact you' here:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/nhs-test-and-trace-how-it-works

They will contact everyone who has been, or who might have been, a 'contact' of the person who has tested positive.

A contact in a hospitality setting is considered as someone within one metre of them with whom they have had a face-to-face conversation, had skin-to-skin physical contact, have coughed on, or been in other forms of contact within one metre of them for one minute or longer; or someone within two metres of them for more than 15 minutes. In practice that might mean that the contact tracers will need to contact everyone who was in the pub at the relevant time but if they can narrow things down a bit (e.g. because the pub had kept a record of which tables different groups were sitting at) they will obviously do so.

[Peter Pedant]

erm should do
but the last one was abandoned because it was crap

the two pubs in Devon the land ladies rang the customers herself because she didnt trust the system - who then said - not all the contacts need come in for a test

the contact rate is 60% which I think should be enough to bring a Ro down to below one