Need advice,

katejo

GTR_King said:

So Friday I went out for a few drinks till Saturday 1am with friends ( Knew one was Boostered & vaxxed). yesterday I went to the pub (Lunch time) for food & drink with friends (All boostered & Vaxed) then football with loads of other people. Then dinner dessert & bowling with same friends. 

Today I got notification on Covid-19 NHS app I got exposure notification about covid-19 contact why would this be?? 

I am fully Vaxed & boostered, 

what do I need to do? 

I am from Suffolk England 

You say that you also went to football with loads of other people. It could have been one of them. I was pinged on Dec 10th and told that I had been in contact with someone who had tested positive on Dec 6th. I was fully vaccinated including the booster at the time. I had a hint of cold symptoms then and started getting a scratchy throat the following evening. It actually took 3 PCR' tests to get a positive so I wasn't sure that I had covid until almost a week later.

MattMattMattUK

GTR_King said:

So Friday I went out for a few drinks till Saturday 1am with friends ( Knew one was Boostered & vaxxed). yesterday I went to the pub (Lunch time) for food & drink with friends (All boostered & Vaxed) then football with loads of other people. Then dinner dessert & bowling with same friends. 

Today I got notification on Covid-19 NHS app I got exposure notification about covid-19 contact why would this be?? 

I am fully Vaxed & boostered, 

what do I need to do? 

I am from Suffolk England 

Because you have not deleted or disabled the app.

GTR_King

katejo said:

GTR_King said:

So Friday I went out for a few drinks till Saturday 1am with friends ( Knew one was Boostered & vaxxed). yesterday I went to the pub (Lunch time) for food & drink with friends (All boostered & Vaxed) then football with loads of other people. Then dinner dessert & bowling with same friends. 

Today I got notification on Covid-19 NHS app I got exposure notification about covid-19 contact why would this be?? 

I am fully Vaxed & boostered, 

what do I need to do? 

I am from Suffolk England 

You say that you also went to football with loads of other people. It could have been one of them. I was pinged on Dec 10th and told that I had been in contact with someone who had tested positive on Dec 6th. I was fully vaccinated including the booster at the time. I had a hint of cold symptoms then and started getting a scratchy throat the following evening. It actually took 3 PCR' tests to get a positive so I wasn't sure that I had covid until almost a week later.

Thank you 😊 well I was pinged today & contact was yesterday, I have no symptoms at all & negative LFT (Today) so gonna be vigilant for the next few days etc see what happens 

GTR_King

Update: 

Done a LFT This morning it was negative and have no typical covid/omicron symptoms only common head/chest cold symptoms e.g blocked nose sore throat, sore chest feeling bit tired, I have no cough can fully smell and taste everything, have no fever.

Gonna do another LFT Tomz (Before work) and rest of the week till Saturday (7 days since exposure) if negative will continue as normal if positive will isolate and book PCR, 

Non of my friends I saw Saturday got anything. 

hopefully just a cold 

FluffityBunny

Use LFT for a few days and if still neg then delete the app.  

GTR_King

FluffityBunny said:

Use LFT for a few days and if still neg then delete the app.  

That’s what I am gonna do till Saturday,

Hopefully I just have a head/chest cold but will keep testing 

GTR_King

Update: 

Day 7 since exposure at weekend (Most likely football) Negative LFT Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday yay 😊 still have bit of sore throat & stuffy/blocked nose with it being tiny bit runny, 

But sadly my mum (Who lives with me) Symptoms started Wednesday tested Positive LFT (Thursday) Positive PCR Results (Friday) 😢 Isolation End on Tuesday with Neg LFT Monday & Tuesday morning

Caught it in London last weekend she thinks (Who knows)

Wednesday: Feeling tired Light cough 
Thursday: Tummy Ache Diarrhoea Cough feeling very tired 
Friday: Feeling tired Cough 
Saturday: Feeling tired 

I have quarantined my self to my TV room with windows open, Only leaving for work & essentials if must too, 

katejo

GTR_King said:

FluffityBunny said:

Use LFT for a few days and if still neg then delete the app.  

That’s what I am gonna do till Saturday,

Hopefully I just have a head/chest cold but will keep testing 

Those symptoms are very similar to what I got and I did get a positive PCR after 2 negative ones. It took 7 days after symptoms started to get the positive one.

jimi_man

According to some of the scientists there is little difference between a cold and Covid. Though a bad cold was far worse than Covid in my case, and my wife and sons who’ve all had it recently. Even the booster was worse than Covid. 

katejo

jimi_man said:

According to some of the scientists there is little difference between a cold and Covid. Though a bad cold was far worse than Covid in my case, and my wife and sons who’ve all had it recently. Even the booster was worse than Covid. 

Mine was very mild. Just scratchy throat, sneezing, runny nose and then a cough. No temperature. In pre Covid days, I would have carried on normal daily activities. Possibly 1 day off work when I was sneezing a lot. My booster was also worse than covid though only for 24 hours.