What school to put for rapid covid test?

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Ordered some of the rapid covid tests just to be on the safe side as I am now back to work (office based).

Did my first one today - negative - and inputted the result. As I'm in a bubble with someone who's at school or works in a school, I had to click that option. It then makes you select the school that the person goes to. Only problem is, what school do I pick?

DD1 is a TA at the local primary.
DD2 is in year 11 at secondary.
Both in household.

I don't see any option to select two, or am I missing something. Or shall I just put 1. Not sure how info is used so not sure if it's important.

@SarsonsWine

Yes, it is hard.
Firstly I have to allow an extra 45 mins for a visit, it has to be booked and if my relative isn't having a good day or is asleep I can't just come back the next day.

Don't get me wrong, it's lovely to be able to go inside, but I still want to do so much more as I see him decline.

@acornautumn there is nothing worng with people taking extra precautions to protect themselves and others, so stop trying to make out op is "enjoying this". I have children in primary school and I work in a busy public facing role, so I take the bi weekly flow tests to hopefully minimise my chance of spreading Covid to the school via the children or to my workplace/customers via the school. My friend is also an ICU nurse who was asymptomatic and tested positive for Covid. She only knew she had it through one of her lateral flow tests. She then got a PCR test which proved she was + for Covid so she obviously isolated. Without that lateral flow test she would have potentially spread Covid to her fellow colleagues... Surely the whole point of these tests is to minimise outbreaks which you can see so easily happen? In hospitals, schools, public workplaces? Anyone who has to be in close indoor proximity to others, or deal with children should be testing.

In answer to your question op, I'd write the primary school as parents of primary school kids are being urged to test themselves. Secondary kids are already testing, so your test should go to primary school imo.

• her fellow colleagues and already severely sick patients, alot of whom wouldn't survive Covid

The only people doing are lockdown lovers.

Nonsense in my experience.

I'm doing them as I work in a school and I work without social distancing, masks, etc. Although I've had covid and now a first vaccine so to highly unlikely I'll become ill again, it gives others peace of mind too when I see them.

We also did one before visiting my parents the other day, again peace of mind.

Dh has to visit clients in hospices and nursing homes at times so he also does them before those visits.

We've done two periods of self isolation prior to doing the LFT testing - once when Dd had symptoms early on (before any testing) and once when I was ill with covid.

It's insanity. We have to live with some degree of risk. We always have but apparently some people never knew it.

I don't agree with any of your statements, but this is ridiculous! Yes there is a risk in virtually everything we do, and I think most people are aware. However, where we can mitigate that risk we do - seatbelts, looking before crossing a road, anti-malaria tablets, oven gloves.

Reducing transmission of Covid through discovering asymptomatic cases who can then isolate will also reduce the risk of variants which may not be restricted by the vaccines. Surely this is common sense like the other risk reduction measures mentioned above?

@TheOrigRights

I'm not allowed to visit my relative in a care home, they have a blanket no visitors policy which makes my blood boil as I have to do 2 LFT tests a week, so does the person I live with and I'm also partially vaccinated (I've had one dose of Pfizer).

I think it's hard for people like you who have to have the LFT when they go to visit and then sit and wait for the results and not be able to do the things you'd normally do for people in a care home.