NHS Tracker App

My niece raised a good point yesterday. If your phone pings with a Covid alert it means that you have been close to someone who has a positive test result. Why is that person not already isolating and not spreading the virus to others? I have always assumed that a person needs to isolate immediately after they have a test and wait until they get the result before they either continue isolation of are free to go out again. 

Have I and my niece not understood something fundamental with the system?

I thought you got the alert if someone you've been in contact with subsequently tests positive, ie not already positive at the time of contact.

You're probably dead right, Tinwheeler. It makes sense. The system must store one hell of a lot of contact information especially from phones in big cities where there is obviously much more possible close proximity contact.

Full and easy explanation of how it works here  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54250736

Well, not 'dead' right, hopefully😆

I read the guidance as it lets you know if you have been in contact with someone who has C19 for more than 15 minutes🤷‍♀️. And then tells you to self isolate for 14 days. It lets you know how high risk is in a given area of country I think as well. And if you are off somewhere that uses the Q scanners, you can ping into there. Preferable before you get drunk.....

It doesn’t inspire me with confidence. But then we have been using an NHS App for a couple of years with our Docs, so I know how unreliable this has been at times. That same App used our information around shielding.......six weeks into lockdown and failed to determine which of three persons it was alluding towards. Took another two weeks and four phone calls to sort out.

As I understand, scanning a code logs one into the application for that location until (a) one scans another code or (b) midnight passes.

There is no scan-out function so one can recieve pings, messages, instructions for something that happened after one left.

Once midnight has passed one would not still be registered for a site until one goes back to the office and scans the code again for that day - every day.

Seems to have been designed for snowflakes in city centres rather than the population at large.

It’s available at Club Sites now. See Ro’s post in UK Sites. Tells you about the QCode.

Doesn’t tell you what happens on a Club Site if a number of persons receive an “isolate now” from App. Still relies on folks doing the decent thing and keeping others informed. Keep an eye out for anyone doing a quick pack up and scarper😉

It might not be a bad idea either if the Club reiterated its policy of refunds if someone has to go home early. I fully understand that you would lose a night, but I bet many would challenge it because they are “doing the right thing”. 🤔

We're on  C&Cc site and there's no QR code visible. I thought they were now a legal requirement. Anyway it worked at the Cornish Pasty Company! I wish it had worked in another shop where I overheard the assistants talking about friends having Covid tests. Obviously there needs to be some further tweaking of the system.

I'm pleased to see Rowena has now posted again about QR codes and the app.