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I didn't know that was on offer across the UK - or that there are enough test centres in places everyone can access to allow it to happen - but even if it is it should be something led (messages from the top, co-ordination with local councils and services, mobile test centres in residential areas and workplaces) by the government not left to Joe and Jane to decide it is something they want to do.
I think I am right in saying that some countries (South Korea, Taiwan...?) got very close to regular testing of their whole populations and were able to scale back once they knew what was really happening with the virus.
Sweden; where i live is having a hard time to find covid 19 study cases. I'm not sure how hard they are trying but in my county there have been about 3600 cases and about 260 deaths...same population as Birmingham.
I still feel they threw people under the bus butatm its looking positive case wise.
I don't give a toss what that says. I know for a fact you can do it.
They were stringent with me. I was given an appointment with specific time slot and location that wasn’t the nearest centre to me, in order to minimise any contact with other people. I was also under the impression that they’re prioritising key workers etc.
I didn’t realise they were offering ‘drop in’ Covid tests?
It’s a good idea.
Can you book one of the tests to see if you've had it as well?
Five weeks ago, I noticed that my sense of smell was weaker and that a lot of the food I ate had I slight tang to it. I thought of booking a test, but was influenced by a radio interview I heard saying that it was only a complete loss of those senses which was a possible symptom of Covid and by the time I realised this was wrong, it was well past the five days from when symptoms first develop period they talk about for the test to be effective.
I've read the NHS guidance which says that people who live by themselves who self isolate can come out of it if the only symptoms they're still showing is a loss of smell/taste and/or a cough (apparently these symptoms can linger for weeks after the virus). I've always got a cough and my sense of smell has, if anything, got worse over the past five weeks (my sense of taste is better than it was, but still not quite right), but my GP told me that if it was COVID that affected my senses I must have had a very mild dose of it and it's more likely it's something else which can be investigated when things get back to something like normal - she told me not to be concerned about affecting other people with Covid or that I may still develop serious symptoms, if that was going to happen it would have done so weeks ago.
So, although there's no point being tested to see if I have it now, it might be worth finding out if I have had it in the past.
Nope, can't blame anyone else for it I'm afraid. One of the possibilities that have come up in discussions is that I may have done a Donald Trump and been affected by the bleach I was cleaning my sink and work surfaces with (I did that for the first two or three months after lockdown about once a week).
When I booked a test for my wife at Abercynon I asked could I have one and was told no as I had no symptoms.
I do not mean to misinform anyone, it may be too important, its not point scoring.
It is what I have actually been told by the people operating the sites .They say you can drive up register and have a test taken.
As I said, I'll ask again tomorrow and find out what is going on
That also seems to be in line with the Government website that I posted yesterday, but in complete contradiction to what xsnaggle has been told, and is now passing on as information.
I'm not saying he is being deliberately misleading, but I think I'll take what he is saying with a pinch of salt based on the overwhelming evidence that people can't simply drive up. I think I'll continue to take the advice of the official Government websites rather than ccmb, I know this sounds daft, crazy even.
Tests are in high demand at the moment, so it would make sense to have some sort of control over them. It also wouldn't make much sense to have potentially tens or hundreds of people descending on a site on a whim when the site is likely to actually have covid-19 cases being tested at the same time.