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Help for Step 2 - Did you touch?

Here, we would like to know which of your contacts you touched, skin-on-skin. That is who did you touch their skin with your skin.

These would count as touching skin-on-skin:

  • a handshake
  • a kiss
  • in some contact sports or activities you may touch someone's skin with yours

These do not count as touching skin-on-skin:

  • brushing past someone in a crowd, and not touching their skin
  • touching someone's clothing but not their skin

Put a cross in the box for this column if you touched the skin of your contact with your skin.

For groups put a cross in the box if you touched the skin of most of the people in a group.

Why do we ask who you touched?

Diseases can spread easily between people, particularly via fingers and saliva. By knowing this extra information about your contacts, we’ll be able to gauge better which interactions people make are important for the spread of disease.