Help for Step 3 - Where did you meet?

This question asks about the social context of your encounters with your contacts.

There are four options to choose from. Put a cross in the box of the situations that best suit where you were when you met each of your contacts and groups. You can cross more than one box for individuals or groups if you met them in more than one situation.

At your home is for all encounters you make within the boundaries of your home (your main residence).

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You talk with your partner and daughter only at your home during the day, you would mark:

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You visit your friend at their home, you would mark:

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You talk to Bob at your normal workplace and you also meet up with him after work at a restaurant, you would mark:

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You are a door-to-door salesman and you spoke face-to-face with three people at their homes, for very different lengths of time, you would mark:

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You talk to a bus-driver and a fellow passenger during your journey into work. You would mark:

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You meet and talk to a sales assistant at a supermarket:

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For groups cross all the boxes for all the situations in which you met the members of the group For example, you meet 10 clients during the course of your work at head offices; you travelled back with one of them on the train, discussing work, and the two of you also stopped for a coffee before your journey. You would mark :

Why do we ask about where you meet people?

By finding out in which situations people meet each other and how many different people they might meet there, we can get a better idea of which types of social situations we could advise people to avoid to try and stop very transmissible diseases spreading. Also, it is thought that the people you meet at home and at your work or school are likely to be the same people you meet there every day; this may not be the case for places like supermarkets or while commuting. Contact tracing is a healthcare strategy which aims to track down and treat people whom someone that is infectious may have met. Knowing in advance how many people this is likely to involve and in which situations will give healthcare workers a better idea of what to expect.