[AlbionFan]

Professor Karol Sikora has been involved with and supported the use of dogs to trace many diseases, cancer being one of them.

At the beginning of the pandemic he tweeted that trials were taking place utilising dogs to identity people who may have Covid-19. The link below provides an update.

Source: https://www.medicaldetectiondogs.org.uk/covid-19-detection-dogs/

[Droitwich Baggie]

Perhaps keeping the dogs at the airports to check people, will alleviate the need to quarantine the holiday makers coming from abroad.

[costa blanca baggie]

Perhaps keeping the dogs at the airports to check people, will alleviate the need to quarantine the holiday makers coming from abroad.

It’s been bad enough getting through an airport post 9/11 without adding dogs sniffing our breath to the experience.

[kc56wba]

The NHS test and trace programme goes live at 9am tomorrow. If you get a call from a contact tracer because you’ve been in contact with an infected person, you must isolate for 14 days, even if you don’t have symptoms. The government has said these instructions must be followed. Though they will be voluntary at first, they will be made mandatory if necessary. “It’s your civic duty to follow test and trace instructions,” Matt Hancock said.

Now I have a question what if the infected person says a person as been in contact with them when in fact they haven't, what way would they prove that? 

[hardtobeat]

Was thinking this earlier. Going to be carnage if it becomes he says she says with people settling scores !

[Cardiaccarol]

I seriously believe that the Durham related events dominating the news will influence the effectiveness of this strategy.

Lots of people I know will not download an app / intend to turn off blue tooth and interpret rules themselves. Co-operation should not be assumed.

I think we are going to have a second wave and the goodwill /belief has gone

[hardtobeat]

I thought the app was off the agenda at the moment !

[zippyandbungle]

I seriously believe that the Durham related events dominating the news will influence the effectiveness of this strategy.

Lots of people I know will not download an app / intend to turn off blue tooth and interpret rules themselves. Co-operation should not be assumed.

I think we are going to have a second wave and the goodwill /belief has gone

Then the “lots of people you know”are Idiots

[Cardiaccarol]

Then the “lots of people you know”are Idiots


Yes some of them are but i suspect the proportion of people I know that fall into that category is replicated across the population.

As you may know - I am a nurse but I know lots of people who are not in healthcare. After the long slog of lockdown and the bad example of isolating from our “leaders” people will not behave as responsibly  as they did in March. To think otherwise is a little naive

 

[OldburyWBA]

Lads, please refrain from mentioning the Durham incident, it has been made clear we will not be allowing any discussion of it whether intentional or not.

[baggiejohn]

The NHS test and trace programme goes live at 9am tomorrow. If you get a call from a contact tracer because you’ve been in contact with an infected person, you must isolate for 14 days, even if you don’t have symptoms. The government has said these instructions must be followed. Though they will be voluntary at first, they will be made mandatory if necessary. “It’s your civic duty to follow test and trace instructions,” Matt Hancock said.

Now I have a question what if the infected person says a person as been in contact with them when in fact they haven't, what way would they prove that?

You can use the location facility on your phone to show where you've been.

The manual system is fine in theory, but what if you're talking to a stranger in a supermarket, how do you trace them?
It's only the person who has been at risk that needs to self isolate, not the family they live with. How does that work?

[BoingFlyer]

You can use the location facility on your phone to show where you've been.

The manual system is fine in theory, but what if you're talking to a stranger in a supermarket, how do you trace them?
It's only the person who has been at risk that needs to self isolate, not the family they live with. How does that work?

Would you really talk to a stranger in the supermarket for over fifteen minutes? The system does not need to be perfect to be effective. Isolating the famliy when a trace has been made is enough to cut the infection rate by 50% according to the BBC.

[tuamigos]

You can use the location facility on your phone to show where you've been.

The manual system is fine in theory, but what if you're talking to a stranger in a supermarket, how do you trace them?
It's only the person who has been at risk that needs to self isolate, not the family they live with. How does that work?

I believe the details given by the Government says that 'the household will isolate for 14 days'

[baggiejohn]

Would you really talk to a stranger in the supermarket for over fifteen minutes? The system does not need to be perfect to be effective. Isolating the famliy when a trace has been made is enough to cut the infection rate by 50% according to the BBC.

As you know from here, I can be quite verbose, my other half even more than me, so yes.

I made the cardinal sin of not checking before I posted, but my understanding was, the individual needed to isolate for 14 days, but not the family they lived with. If it is the family, then that makes sense.

I have just checked & this is a quote from the bbc website

The tracers can track down the contacts of 10,000 people every day, the government says.

This could include household members, but extends to anyone they have been within 2m (6ft) of for more than 15 minutes.

These close contacts will be told to stay at home for up to 14 days, even if they do not have symptoms, to stop them from unknowingly spreading the virus.

While these contacts will have to quarantine, unless they also develop symptoms the rest of their household will not have to self-isolate alongside them.

read more here

[boinging_along]

I believe the details given by the Government says that 'the household will isolate for 14 days'

Wonder what they've got in place for when someone is told to isolate but work are being difficult about it or they can't work from home. 

[kc56wba]

Wonder what they've got in place for when someone is told to isolate but work are being difficult about it or they can't work from home.

According to Matt Hancock they must go sick and the company pay you.

[Jimmy]

Would you really talk to a stranger in the supermarket for over fifteen minutes? The system does not need to be perfect to be effective. Isolating the famliy when a trace has been made is enough to cut the infection rate by 50% according to the BBC.

You might be in a queue for longer than fifteen minutes.

[boinging_along]

According to Matt Hancock they must go sick and the company pay you.

Statutory sick pay I guess then?  Good luck with getting people to do that now.

[skyclad99]

I have been watching the US news quite a lot recently as Sky have been doing my head in!

So they now have over 100,000 deaths and account for nearly one third of deaths worldwide. However Donald is still trying to claim credit for the figure not being higher, and seems more concerned about discrediting Joe Biden and accusing voting by mail as rife with fraud.

To add to his problems, Minneapolis is in riot mode over the death of  black male George Floyd by the police [the video released on the news is brutal], and he is threatening to close down Twitter if they censor his tweets.


Anyone with 5 minutes to spare should check out Don Lemon on CNN - he is not a fan of DT!

[kc56wba]

Test and Trace has gone down due to technical problems already. 

[kc56wba]

Statutory sick pay I guess then?  Good luck with getting people to do that now.

No Statutory sick pay for self employed.   Any help for them?

[mulliganstired]

Hancock in full officious traffic warden mode at the moment, I can't see this going well.

[WoysWunderful]

After the weekends going on I've kept myself away from the media this week so I'm basically getting my news on here. What's happened to the track and trace app? I thought it wasn't due live till June the 1at

[baggiejohn]

After the weekends going on I've kept myself away from the media this week so I'm basically getting my news on here. What's happened to the track and trace app? I thought it wasn't due live till June the 1at

You mean the world beating track & trace app? It's stopped working.

It's betamax & squarial all over again

[WoysWunderful]

So they've launched the app early and it's broke? 😂 I assume they ironed out all the bugs on the Isle of Wight so is it just a capacity thing?