Contacted by T&T after flight
Nov 1, 2021, 9:22 am
#16
Join Date: Oct 2012
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We had this after a BA flight to LCY from Mykonos in Sept. Seat numbers were on the PLF at that time but we were sitting in 2C&D so no-one in front. There was one person in 1A (who had been upgraded at the check-in desk so her seat number would have been different on the PLF), one in 2A, one in 3A and two in 3D&C so we must have either been very unlucky or the whole plane got pinged.
Nov 1, 2021, 10:05 am
#17
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Lincolnshire, UK
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No, it was by text msg from T&T Scotland. I did the PCR test but no way to feed it back into the NHS covid app as it hadn't originated from that, and no compatible code to enter.
It is all bit disjointed when dealing with different countries in the UK.
It is all bit disjointed when dealing with different countries in the UK.
Nov 1, 2021, 10:16 am
#18
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Dublin, Ireland
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I have been contacted by test and trace today and it seems my contact was on a flight I took last Monday. No issue with that at all. It is a risk and fair enough. My question is how far they go with this. Does the whole plane get T&T contacted or just those within a certain radius of the positive case? I guess if it is crew then is it just the cabin they were in.
It all ended with, follow your local ROI rules and that was me done
Good to see it's taken seriously, though the fact the NHS webpage says it's in Beta amused me!
Nov 1, 2021, 10:28 am
#19
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For those vaccinated IN THE UK to be exact. I got back to the UK after 20 months in Oz last month, just in time for my mum's 90th birthday, only to be pinged after someone on the plane tested positive. Which in turn meant the celebrations had to be postponed even though I'm double jabbed with AZ just like most of you as I was then in mandatory self isolation. This despite the vaccines minister stating on 22 July that the NHS would be able to register our overseas vaccines by the end of July. So so far more than 3 months to do something he said would take 10 days. Useless.
Nov 1, 2021, 12:27 pm
#20
Join Date: Feb 2019
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I got called on 14th October for a flight arriving on 4th October. Told to self isolate for 10 days from the 4th which I explained to them was the day they were calling me. Well spent money on T&T there! What’s the point of asking for the PLF if they aren’t going to contact trace within a reasonable time? Everyone will have had to do a test within 2 days so is no excuse to wait 8 days to contact trace
Nov 1, 2021, 12:35 pm
#21
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I got called on 14th October for a flight arriving on 4th October. Told to self isolate for 10 days from the 4th which I explained to them was the day they were calling me. Well spent money on T&T there! What’s the point of asking for the PLF if they aren’t going to contact trace within a reasonable time? Everyone will have had to do a test within 2 days so is no excuse to wait 8 days to contact trace
Nov 1, 2021, 2:26 pm
#22
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i noted in a different thread that in october, i was contacted each week from a BA flight, annoyingly. each time was on day 8/10...but for the last one curiously my parents were not contacted despite us in 1C/D/F.
and while i was in 1C, there was no one in 1A on the day i would have encountered this "contact"
and while i was in 1C, there was no one in 1A on the day i would have encountered this "contact"
Nov 1, 2021, 2:49 pm
#23
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Did those who got contacted by T&T find that their NHS app stopped working? Mine has been saying "we're experiencing technical difficulties" ever since I got pinged.
I have my pdf vaccine certificate downloaded so it's not the end of the world but I'm slightly concerned that if the system thinks I shouldn't be allowed to generate a vaccine cert then perhaps the QR code on my existing cert will no longer show up with green tick for travel and vaccine passport use in Europe. I know I don't need to self isolate but I wouldn't want to explain the intricacies of UK rules to a waiter/airport agent abroad.
I have my pdf vaccine certificate downloaded so it's not the end of the world but I'm slightly concerned that if the system thinks I shouldn't be allowed to generate a vaccine cert then perhaps the QR code on my existing cert will no longer show up with green tick for travel and vaccine passport use in Europe. I know I don't need to self isolate but I wouldn't want to explain the intricacies of UK rules to a waiter/airport agent abroad.
Nov 1, 2021, 3:04 pm
#24
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In terms of the level of contact from T&T for those who were on a flight where someone tested positive, are there follow up calls after the initial instruction to isolate or is it once and done?
Curious to know whether it becomes like the situation earlier in the year where there were often daily calls and sometimes visits for those meant to be isolating after travel.
Curious to know whether it becomes like the situation earlier in the year where there were often daily calls and sometimes visits for those meant to be isolating after travel.
Nov 1, 2021, 3:34 pm
#25
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In terms of the level of contact from T&T for those who were on a flight where someone tested positive, are there follow up calls after the initial instruction to isolate or is it once and done?
Curious to know whether it becomes like the situation earlier in the year where there were often daily calls and sometimes visits for those meant to be isolating after travel.
Curious to know whether it becomes like the situation earlier in the year where there were often daily calls and sometimes visits for those meant to be isolating after travel.
yes, but there is no pattern to who or when
Nov 1, 2021, 10:20 pm
#26
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I got called on 14th October for a flight arriving on 4th October. Told to self isolate for 10 days from the 4th which I explained to them was the day they were calling me. Well spent money on T&T there! What’s the point of asking for the PLF if they aren’t going to contact trace within a reasonable time? Everyone will have had to do a test within 2 days so is no excuse to wait 8 days to contact trace
Nov 2, 2021, 2:36 am
#28
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Sussex by the Sea
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So I got pinged by NHS T&T over the weekend, 9 days after an outbound flight to AGP. Message was that I had attended a "venue that was the source of a Covid outbreak". Told not to isolate but take a test (which we were doing anyway because of day 2 return requirements).
As I have never used the app contract tracing or checked in to any venues using the app, I presume the "venue" was the flight but there seems to be no way of finding this out??
As I have never used the app contract tracing or checked in to any venues using the app, I presume the "venue" was the flight but there seems to be no way of finding this out??