No PCR tests available

Giulia our local post office staff who are testing positive but no symptoms are working as usual, many more staff are off now with Covid and have symptoms.
Apparently they can’t force staff to stay away even if they are testing positive.

I've just registered my latest test (negative)

System worked fine.

You're unfortunately right, maddyone. I tested positive for Covid last month and felt perfectly well, apart from a cough no worse than I'd previously had with common colds. I could have gone out and spread it, but I didn't. Others might not have the same scruples.

No Giulia. I meant what I said, test positive. If people were testing negative there wouldn’t be an issue would there? The issue arises because people testing positive may well still go out and infect others.

I’ll have to pay to visit my elderly mother in her care home now.

maddyone

The evidence from Gransnet alone suggests that a great many people who get a positive LFT are really quite poorly with it. I’ve lost count of the number of Gransnetters who have said they’ve tested positive and been really poorly. Of course those who test positive and don’t feel poorly will just go out and infect more people.

Don't you mean "test NEGATIVE"?

I read online that those who are 75 and over and others who have been shielding with get LFTs free.

Apparently those who are 75+ in London are more likely to be hospitalised.

The evidence from Gransnet alone suggests that a great many people who get a positive LFT are really quite poorly with it. I’ve lost count of the number of Gransnetters who have said they’ve tested positive and been really poorly. Of course those who test positive and don’t feel poorly will just go out and infect more people.

I think it matters a lot. We need to know roughly how many cases are out there. How can anyone, particularly the more vulnerable, make an informed decision about what they might or might not do if they don’t have any facts to work with? I’m really quite annoyed with the government about the way this has been handled. Surely we are entitled to the information.

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.

As Mr Trump once said

If you don’t test, the numbers go down

Or something like that.

The only data we will have is hospital admissions and Deaths

Eventually the site let me book a PCR but it took endless attempts. I still think that most people won't bother to do it. I couldn't record my LFT at all. That's the way to reduce the case numbers ....

When I went onto the NHS site this morning to register my Negative ( at last) result, there was a section inviting me for a PCR test locally, but I didn’t go in to have a look at the criteria, so I imagine you can still get one.

Yesterday when I registered my 1st negative, I was able to get a box of LFT tests, they arrived this morning! But this morning the little box to request some had been removed.

I posted my positive LFT result on line. This was on Sunday. OH did his on Tuesday. No problem. Both positive results are duly recorded. From what I understand you do not need to follow it up with a PCR test.

Not a lot you can do if reporting website is down
Wouldn't bother with a PCR anyway
I would just test until I got a couple of negatives

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No you can't do that in NW London. I've reported it in the ZOE app but I don't think that affects the official figures at all. Can't order any more LFTs either or get them from anywhere. I'll keep trying but I suspect the London figures are too high and this is a way of reducing them. Or have I just got a very suspicious nature?

I also have Covid and have reported by LFT on line (as GG said) and DS1 has been pinged as a result. He also now has covid and has reported on line.

It was DH's fault - lots of things are!!

You can report your LFT online.