Two COVID questions

[KenAdams]

Yes I know there's a COVID board but I'm posting here for traffic as I'm looking for quick answers.

1. Can you get a COVID test where you live? We're in a county with a lockdown city in it (we're outside of the lockdown zone) and our children obviously need COVID tests to return to school if they have symptoms however we can't get them. There are none available in the entire county or neighbouring counties apparently and we can't get hold of postal tests either.

2. What's your schools policy if a child in the class shows symptoms? For example if another child in your child's class shows symptoms does your entire household need to isolate? If the other child's test is positive does your entire household need to isolate? There seems to be some inconsistencies around schools here?

Just to clarify, this isn't in relation to my child or any child in particular but just general issues a lot of us in our area seem to be experiencing.

Your looking for quick answers but it isnt in relation to tour child

You should of posted on the covid board

Reported

How do you check if you can get a test? Genuine question (I assume you have to actually apply online? Which people who don't need a test probably won't do?)

Schools policy is if a child shows symptoms they and their family isolate until they get a negative test. If they test positive then the school bubble that child was in isolates for 14 days.

Anecdotally, you can't get home tests where I am [central London]

Because I'm trying to get answers for a number of friends that are struggling to find tests @ChristmasSnowball. I didn't want anyone to get the impression that it was an emergency situation relating to a particular child though as its been a general problem any time people have tried for the past week.

1) Can you get a COVID test where you live?

No idea, I haven't tried to get one. I did work out the nearest possible drive thru is 25 minutes away. Lucked out with that proximity.

2) What's your schools policy if a child in the class shows symptoms?

No idea, they will tell me when I need to know. Whatever the policy is today, might be different by the time someone tests positive (if they test positive). I don't need to know before it happens.

@Crunchymum the gov.uk site.

OK so after a positive test if the bubble isolates does that mean just the children in the bubble or the entire households of all the children in the bubble please?

[quote KenAdams]@Crunchymum the gov.uk site.

OK so after a positive test if the bubble isolates does that mean just the children in the bubble or the entire households of all the children in the bubble please?[/quote]
Just the kids, unless any of them go onto develop symptoms. Then the household isolate until they get a negative test.

Testing seems to be broken everywhere, no you can't get a rest easily here.

With regard to symptoms in children, it's not the school's policy that counts it's the government guidance. If a child (or adult) has symptoms they need a test and the household must isolate for 14 days or until there is a negative test result or they develop symptoms themselves, when they need a test.

No one else at school does anything until/unless there is a positive result.

1. Don’t know, haven’t needed one.

2. If a child in class is sent home & my child is a contact, my child must isolate until test results of poorly child are known. In the meantime, adults can go to work and other children to school. If that child tests negative, back to school fir everyone in class. If that child tests positive, class isolates for 14 days. Household members can still attend work/school UNLESS my child shows symptoms. At that point the whole household must isolate.

no if a positive test in the bubble the school will inform you who needs to isolate -this could be anything up to the entire bubble. However it is just the child that needs to isolate not siblings or other members of the family.
If your child them starts experiencing symptoms however, you should all self isolate from that point onwards.

Are you writing an article?

Someone needs to write one about the testing situation

1. I had to book a test this morning. No drive through tests at all, I tried last night and it wanted to send me 60 miles away. I did manage to get a home test this morning which were not available last night. I tried my parents postcode and there were no test options at all.

1. If a child in a class shows symptoms they are sent home and their family isolates. Only if two in a bubble test positive do they sent the whole class home (not siblings). However, I suspect they would send home after one positive test. Hasn’t happened yet

@GetRid noooo I almost inserted the usual Daily Mail are wankers bit in my OP so it didn't become red top fodder. Hopefully that will do it as I don't think MNHQ will edit the OP for me.

Essentially we've had a handful of children with symptoms in our area but because they can't get tested, if they are in fact positive the rest of the bubble should isolate but because of the testing delays, some of the parents are wondering if it might be spreading but without a test result the bubble doesn't need to isolate.

In our school, if a child's bubble has a positive test only the other children need to isolate but in other schools it seems they are asking entire households to isolate even though their child hasn't shown any symptoms so its quite confusing.

@SimpleComforts they do but not using this post for their lazy journalism

[quote KenAdams]@Crunchymum the gov.uk site.

OK so after a positive test if the bubble isolates does that mean just the children in the bubble or the entire households of all the children in the bubble please?[/quote]
Just the children in the bubble.

My school has a few home testing kits for people who can't get to a centre

Hit mother in law a test quickly in London no queue

Thanks everyone :)

Here in Yorkshire tests are hard to come by. My youngest is in an effected bubble and so has to isolate, but no one else in the house has to. So my child could be asymptotic and her older sister could be unknowingly spreading it around her high school. I can go wherever I want, but my youngest must not leave the house.

if you are in a local lockdown area then they might ask the full household to isolate if there was contact with a positive case at school. I'm in an area in Scotland where this is the current process