[St Charles Owl]

It's not only a big challenge, it's probably an impossible task. If the 20 other passengers already found have made contact with only 5 people each up to mid-February, that's now 100 needing to be found. If these have made contact with another 5 each in the two weeks up to now, that makes 500 so far. And none of these contacts will have been aware up to now, and are probably still unaware, that they are contacts.

And there in a nutshell is the whole problem with pandemics, the reality is it is incredibly hard to stop them once they are in!! I took a mandatory test in the 72 hours prior to my flight to LHR, but that only means I wasn't positive at the time of the test. I was careful in the following couple of days but my wife and daughter were still doing what they had to do, so I could easily have still got it if I was unlucky. Since then I have taken another test which came back negative, so I know I wasn't infecting anyone on the flight at least. I will be tested again tomorrow, Thursday and Friday by both the Government mandate and my work rules before getting a couple of days off having to shove sticks up my nostrils!!