Have you been 'pinged'?

I wasn't disputing anything Whiff. I was surprised, that's all.

I've never done a PCR test (or even a LFT), so I really don't know how efficient the system is.

growstuff I live in Merseyside. I was surprised to get the results so quickly everytime. My daughter did a PCR test on my grandson and posted it and got the results back the same day this was last week.

It may depend where you live how quickly you get the results.

Even though I have been double dosed I do a lateral flow test every Saturday and take all the precautions. I will still wear my mask in shops and on the bus even if they say we don't have to. Better safe than sorry.

It can't possibly be working as it should when you read peoples' experiences.
None of it makes sense.

I’ve had the app since it started and have never been pinged. I work in amongst approximately one hundred people and now go out a lot to pubs and restaurants. I’ve stayed in hotels since they reopened and go to the gym.

I followed all asked of us but didn’t put the app on my phone

I have the app and use it to check into venues etc. I have never been pinged. I don't go out very often though.

I wonder how I'd fare at the job centre if I told them I'd isolated so many times that my shifts were covered, and I no longer had any work?

The app can't be downloaded to my phone, so I've never had it.

Whiff

When I have done a PCR which I have done 4 times over the last year had it delivered by post and posted it back the same day in a postbox with NHS sticker on it . I had the result later the same night usually about 8.30pm.

I didn't realise it could be done so quickly. A friend of mine has had three done over the last two weeks and has had to wait 24 hours in each case. That's why I asked. GrandmaKT confirmed it wasn't a PCR test.

I have followed all the rules but simply refuse to have the app.

I know of people who are going away on holiday and switching the App off their phone for the duration. It's as though they're entering a different world with gay abandon. They also don't want to worry about being off work on their return.
I have eaten out and gone to seaside tourist attractions a fair bit, but have not been pinged.

When I have done a PCR which I have done 4 times over the last year had it delivered by post and posted it back the same day in a postbox with NHS sticker on it . I had the result later the same night usually about 8.30pm.

GrandmaKT

growstuff

GrandmaKT

I was pinged last night, because I had been in a venue where others had been who later tested positive. But I was just told to take a test rather than self-isolate. Have they changed the procedure? I did a test and it was negative.

Did you do a PCR test? I didn't think the results came back so quickly. If it was a LFT, be aware they're not that accurate.

No, I just did a lateral flow. If I develop any symptoms I will do a PCR test.

So you don't know for sure that you're negative.

I have never been pinged
But have now deleted the app

It is frustrating not to have the correct information.

I have had my 2 jabs, tested negative pcr test but still have to isolate due to work.

But my dd is feeling quite rough with symptoms and having to look after a 6 yr old and 14 yr old (he is not too bad can cope for himself) dd is feeling nauseus, headache etc doesn't seem to be improving and I am unable to go and help her, other wise I will have to start the 10 days again I presume.

growstuff

GrandmaKT

I was pinged last night, because I had been in a venue where others had been who later tested positive. But I was just told to take a test rather than self-isolate. Have they changed the procedure? I did a test and it was negative.

Did you do a PCR test? I didn't think the results came back so quickly. If it was a LFT, be aware they're not that accurate.

No, I just did a lateral flow. If I develop any symptoms I will do a PCR test.

What I do not understand is how on the one hand you have capacity crowds at Wimbledon and Wembley and on the other hand whole groups/bubbles/year groups sent home from school? Makes no sense.

From todays daily telegraph
Do I have to self-isolate if the NHS app tells me to?
Legally, no. If you are 'pinged' by the NHS COVID-19 app via a notification on your phone, there is no legal obligation to self-isolate. This is because downloading the app is voluntary and any instruction from it is simply guidance - rather than the law.

That is not to say you shouldn't be responsible and self-isolate anyways - it's just that there's no legal imperative for you to do so. However, if you are told via an email, text or phone call from the Test and Trace service, you must legally isolate.

My understanding is that it is not a legal requirement to have to isolate should you be “pinged”. Only a recommendation. It is a legal requirement to isolate if you are contacted in person by test and trace.
An immediate neighbour of mine on my terrace was pinged a few months ago. She is a home tutor and cancelled all her pupils for 10 days thereby losing all of her income. It later transpired that the Bluetooth signal connecting her to her neighbour on the other side who had tested positive had gone through the wall of their adjoining properties. (We can each pick up Wi-fi connections from adjoining homes) There had not been any physical connection whatsoever and unless COVID is able to wriggle its way through bricks and plaster my neighbour was not in any danger of contracting the illness.
On the grounds that this is not a very accurate system, I will not have it in my phone.

GrandmaKT

I was pinged last night, because I had been in a venue where others had been who later tested positive. But I was just told to take a test rather than self-isolate. Have they changed the procedure? I did a test and it was negative.

Did you do a PCR test? I didn't think the results came back so quickly. If it was a LFT, be aware they're not that accurate.

Not been pinged yet and on my 7th day of isolation (negative pcr result) but was away with dd and 2 gsons . dd and one gs tested positive, we travelled in same car slept in same room.

As yet "no ping" so no don't think the app is working, not for me anyway.

I was pinged last night, because I had been in a venue where others had been who later tested positive. But I was just told to take a test rather than self-isolate. Have they changed the procedure? I did a test and it was negative.

I have never been pinged,but i went for my 2nd vaccine today and the venue was shut,not happy .

That's why I deleted the app.
It doesn't seem to have worked as planned from the word go.

My dil was ‘pinged’ to isolate for TWO days. It seemed pointless as she had spent the previous 8 days working, out and about etc, but she did. Traced it back to a cafe she’d been to with my son, he was never asked to isolate.