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The testing system is broken

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Crunchymum · 21/09/2020 10:57

5yo starts coughing 16th September.
Finally manage to get a home test on 18th September after trying tirelessly for 48 hours.

Test arrives 19th September which is a Saturday so there is no post
Courier arranged for 20th - sample taken as advised at 9pm on 19th ready for collection the next day
courier never turns up
test is wasted
sample can't be used
child is day 6 now so cannot be tested elsewhere.

7yo started coughing on 17th, but as I have already had a test we cannot have another?

So we are now quarantined until 1st October!

Shall I just give up now and home school?

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Crunchymum · 21/09/2020 10:57
  • we don't drive and no walk-ins within 4 miles come up so we are limited to home test.
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