Corona virus testing

My sister in law tested positive last week...few days later had a phone call from the council asking her to attend for another test...the original test apparently was from a faulty batch!!!!
The second test proved negative...unbelievable!!!
At our test centres it is d.i.y...you either drive in or walk in and are given a test kit....I've read that a lot of false negatives are showing up as some people aren't doing it right!

No. They tried to get a test but never did. Her friends family had it tho. Toddler caught it in the nursery. 3 houses on our street have had it.

Was it diagnosed as COVID? GagaJo?
There is a cough going around and some who have it were tested negative for COVID.

I ask because thinking they had had it, if it was another virus, could give them a false sense of security.

I wish more antibody tests were available. The only ones that seem to be offered are private ones and fully booked up.

My daughter and grandson have just had covid. They were totally unable to get a test.

A family member was here yesterday and she got a call from school to pick her 12year old from school, he was coughing and wouldn’t be readmitted until he had a negative Covid test.
He really did just have a cold and hasn’t coughed once since she picked him up.

The first test she was offered, after many hours was 67 miles away, the next was nearer, Bradford.
She refreshed the page until she got him one 2 miles from home.

It was at noon today, there were ten bays to park in, only 2 being used, when she left only one car there.
What is going on.?

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Finally managed to get a test appointment for H...fingers x'd that its negative....

It does seem to be an area thing, we are in the SE and a friend's son was able to get a test straight away. But I have little confidence in Serco track and trace.

We came back from Croatia nearly two weeks ago, sailed through Heathrow without a single check, and despite filling in the form and submitting it 24 hours before we left Croatia, no-one has been in touch with us since to check that we are quarantining (we are!)

Still not been able to book a test for H...its absolutely ridiculous...

Why is Johnson still refusing to acknowledge that people can’t get tests? And why does he still insist on calling it NHS test and trace when it isn’t NHS (and isn’t really testing and tracing much either)?

My grandson, a teacher in Londan has not been able to get a test.
Why is Dido Harding still in post.?

growstuff..I'm not sure either! Is anyone? This is crazy...its like living 'real life's...but in a mixed up dream....but of course we are isolating...so frustrated I could cry...I have three granddaughters at the same school...yr8,yr9..and all of the 6th form have now to isolate for 2weeks...they are our future and their young lives are a mess!! ..have absolutely no confidence in the government or the health professionals anymore...its a bloody shambles..

looks like.

From our local paper

Commenting on his visit, Mr ****. said: “Constituents have been telling me that they have had great difficulties in booking a test, with some being sent miles away, with others not being able to access one at all.

“Not satisfied with the Government’s answers and its overall incompetency I approached Public Health ***** County Council.

"I asked them what numbers of tests they have been doing per day against their capacity for the site. They say they can’t tell me or haven’t replied. You sense yet another cover-up.

“I was therefore shocked and furious to discover only 16 cars using the testing facility at the *** today, where it was clear that many more could be processed.

“This isn’t the fault of the facility staff who are doing the best they can, but it’s rather a clear failure in the Government and their systems to get people tested and traced.

“I’m afraid that the Government are wilfully misleading the public on what is really going on.

“We’ve seen cases rise once more, yet the Government still can’t get testing right.

"It has wasted the summer, during which it should have focussed on getting the Test and Trace system running up to standard, but instead we are left once more with yet another failing system putting the public’s health at risk.

“This is what incompetency loo

Just had an email from my MP (he sends them out regularly). He has been having complaints about lack of available appointments for testing, so he drove to our nearest testing station and there had been only 16 cars passed through that morning.

Talked to the staff manning it and they say they have plenty of capacity, but the system isn’t sending people to them.

He’s livid.

The number of new cases in the UK is now 4368. The figure on Monday last week was 2621. The projection that new cases are doubling every 8 days is about right.

There are officially no tests available in London and some other areas, unless you're a specific key worker, so the new case statistic is bound to be even higher.

Not being able to be tested positive means that low paid workers can't even claim the £500 if they need to self-isolate, so they will carry on working if they can. This is a shambles.

I don't understand your argument craftyone. Of course there should be a test available for farview's DH, but children with symptoms need testing too. They are just as likely to spread infection as everybody else, so people need to know, so that the whole family can self-isolate. I'm sure farview knows that she needs to self-isolate for 14 days. I'm not sure how she's going to do that if she needs to with her DH (who also must self-isolate) to a test centre.

We were intending to holiday in Sardinia this year, which of course we have postponed, but interestingly Sardinia needs evidence at point of entry that you are negative for covid.

Impossible I would have thought.

Just drive to Eton

Do you have an oximeter farview? it might help alleviate your worries

Some tests are being used on children with a parent just diagnosed positive, Child has to quarantine for 14 days so a test result is neither here nor there as more likely than not, a child would have no bad effect. Should be reserved for people like your dh if there is a shortage

No tests available here in Bolton...been trying for two days...my H, 75yrs..has got a new,constant cough.....it may be just,a cough...but he should be tested!

2020 logically they must be lower than the true figure as so many cannot get tests and some of these will be +ve.

What I need explaining is
If tests are so hard to come by, what is the point of the daily published numbers? Either they are way below the actual or there is some other reason. If you feel you have the symptoms, but can’t get a test, how do you know if you have Covid or not.
That being said it is a worrying time for everyone, especially those who have the virus, and their families.
Keep well everyone, keep your distance. Think mask, hand washing and distance.

No tests at all available in my daughter's area. She's tried for 5 days.

Testing is effective until Day 5, apparently.
You should get tested in the first 3 days of symptoms appearing, although testing is effective until day 5. You won’t normally be tested after day 5 unless it’s for a specific reason. This will be agreed on a case-by-case basis.

(Scottish site but I presume it is the same everywhere.)

GagaJo

Daughter and GS have symptoms. No tests available. The NHS site says no testing after day 5 of symptoms. Is this for a medical reason?

There are so many other bugs around at the moment, Gagajo, fingers crossed it is something else.
If it is COVID I hope it is very mild- which is more than likely as they are both young.

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