No PCR tests available

Esspee

I believe the reason Scotland has such a high reported rate (one in eleven have covid currently) is because we are still testing and recording.
Believe it or not by law we are still wearing masks in confined spaces with very high compliance as far as I have observed.
In England you aren’t reporting or having PCR tests so it looks as if your rates are lower.
Boris wants you to think it’s all over.

The 1 in 11 in Scotland is an extrapolation of the representative testing that the ONS do. The actual number reporting positive in Scotland in the last week was actually less than 1 in 50 of the population, I think. The ONS figure for England and for Wales is 1 in 16.

So the level of LFT/PCR testing we do ourselves does not influence the ONS figure. The reason Scotland is so high is probably that we started the BA2 spike before England and Wales started theirs.

Baggs

*The only data we will have is hospital admissions and Deaths*

These are the important data. If people who get positive LFTs aren't ill, why does it matter? And if they are ill (not counting hospital ill), they can stay away from other people as much as possible, as they would with a stinking cold or flu. Oh yes, and they can wear a face mask if they have to mix with other people. Face masks work, right?

This is what "living with it" means.

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I totally agree with Songstress.

I can’t get any free LFT’s. I’ve been in close contact with someone who has since tested positive and have been supplied with a code to pick up some free LFT’s but tried several chemists with no joy. One did, however, offer to sell me some @ £2.00 each!

Some of you won't have a life at all when covid is over

I think the time has come not to obsess over Covid and LFTs and PCRs. I’m staying careful but after two years my life is too short to continue obsessing.

I test regularly out of respect to my friends and family as people are still dying from covid in spite of the vaccines - many less than without it I’m sure. I always report my test results online and have never had any problems in doing so. I’ve tested twice over 3 days this week as I was having a procedure in hospital and this was the requirement and I registered those on the gov website without any problems. I’ve also ordered more tests this week - they are still available.

I think you’re right *greyknitter’ it’s out of respect and care for others that we test before we go out and see others at restaurants or in their homes and we hope they do the same.

I wish that the chap that MrOops met a couple of weeks ago had done the same thing, as MrOops caught it from him and then I got it as well.

Many people though couldn’t give a toss about others and will happily go out and spread it around.

I ordered lft’s this morning after a few days of none available, England.

I have tried ordering again and told none available. Where are you ordering from?

We've been trying for a fortnight to get Lft tests. We could at one time get them from the pharmacy attached to the GP's but not anymore.

tickingbird this is where I ordered from at 7am today.
www.gov.uk/order-coronavirus-rapid-lateral-flow-tests

I tried to order from there today and they didn’t have any!

Thank you Jaxjacky. Strangely enough the post lady has just been and delivered a pack of 7 LFT’s! When I applied online a message came up stating none were available

That’s good tickingbird mine are being delivered this morning.

Ladyleftfieldlover

I tried to order from there today and they didn’t have any!

Try first thing in the morning

I thought there was no more testing in England? I could be wrong. Still testing and wearing masks in public places here. Schools are a hotbed of covid just now.
Not had any problems getting tests but does ask what country you are in.

Well I need tests for my friends and family to do as I’m on chemotherapy and vulnerable otherwise I’d be locked away if they didn’t test before meeting me!

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I tested positive for Covid yesterday after two LFTs.

As CEV, I was fast tracked for anti virals and received them at 9am this morning. I was told that there was no need for a PCR test.
I have nothing but praise for NHS Scotland.