Turn around time on Covid results?

[RoseGoldEagle]

I know this isn’t an AIBU but posting for traffic and so I can do a poll, as really need to get back to work and wondering how long it will be! (As long as the test is negative obvs). How long did your Covid result take to come back after going to a drive through test centre?

Vote YANBU for- it took LESS than 48 hours for my results to come back

Vote YABU for - it took MORE than 48 hours for my results to come back

Thank you!!

You didn't allow voting. YABU. 48 hours is too optimistic.

We're now on day 3, so 40 hours + waiting for DS' results. They told us at the drive-through centre we'd get the results within 24 hours. 119 now cuts you off as they're too busy to speak to you so frig knows what we're now meant to do to get his results.

It's really not good enough. We have to work so can't keep kids off school for days every time they get a slight cough.

Less than 24 hours for us, both times we’ve had it done over the last few months.

Sorry, should’ve added the most recent test was yesterday at 9.30am, got results texted through at 6am today. Really impressed, and so relieved as it meant my two well children could go to school while I kept just the coughing one at home!

Apologies for my rubbish maths, we're now on 66+ hours waiting for results, not 40+ hours. Anyone know where else we can go to get results? Online it looks like GPs can't see the results from drive-through centres so we can't ask there.

What times are people phoning and getting through to 119? Couldn't get through yesterday evening or 8.30 this morning because they were too busy to answer my call and cut me off.

Had my test at 3pm on a Saturday at a drive through centre a couple of weeks ago, got my results just before 9am the next day, same for DH, DSs room until around 12 -not sure why we were all tested at the same time.
DM had a test recently on a Friday around lunchtime and had her results late Saturday afternoon.

36 hours a couple of weeks ago. No tests available where I live at the minute

We're in the South east, would be interesting to know where people are to see if delays are regional

We're East Midlands. Tested in Leicester. No postal tests available when I call 119 but same day drive-in tests available (just so long as you don't want the results in this lifetime).

If you want an indication of how long it might be now, there's no point in people telling you what happened three weeks ago!

Tested 11.30am Sunday woke up to the negative result this morning (tues). North Wales so less than 48hrs

Sent postal test back Friday, still waiting, bucks area.

SoCrimeaRiver agree that’s my worry about this happening often throughout winter. We had DD tested about 6 weeks ago and got results back in 24hs which was great as we could carry on with normal life, but if it’s going to be a lot longer then it’s going to be so difficult.

I’m in the North East

Tested Wednesday morning. Got results back Sunday afternoon.

Previous tests have been 24 hours, but seems to be much slower turn around now. One of my neighbours can't even get a test today unless they drive 215 miles.

@lyralalala so if you've got kids, they're meant to stay at home Wed, Thurs and Fri pending the Sunday results? That's cr*p.

Whereabouts in the country are you? At least it's not just us getting a rotten turnaround time for results.

Drive through on Friday at 11am, results 2345 the same day. Negative and in north of England

Tested Saturday, results 48 hours later. I think delays will get even longer as more kids pick up a colf from school.

What times are people phoning and getting through to 119?

SoCrimeaRiver. I just got through now (3ish) and they’ve sent mine to the ‘delay team’ but couldn’t give any indication of how long that would take, just that there was a big back log.

If you’ve quarantined for 14 days or whatever it is now, and still not got your result but you’ve done the quarantine since symptoms began, can you go back to work? Or do you have to wait for the results?

If you’ve self isolated for the right amount of days (10-14 days depending on the situation I think), then you can go back to work if you’re basically well- the guidelines talk about how if you still have a cough after that time but are otherwise well that’s ok- but it lists symptoms where you’d need to continue self isolating. So if your test hadn’t come back but you’d isolated for 14 days and were feeling better you could go back to work even without the test result.

But please don’t tell me you’ve waiting that long for a result?!

I did a home test on my daughter last week and got the result within 36 hours of posting it back (received the test itself the day after I had requested it)

I haven’t OP, been a day so far, but just seem to hear of people getting better or quarantine ending before the results arrive ...

If you get on the wrong day, a full quarantine is perfectly possible. DS got sick with a fever on Thursday night. I managed to order a home testing kit on Friday morning. It arrived on Saturday afternoon. The tests can only be returned on weekdays, so he couldn't do the test until Monday, to be sent off in the 5.15pm postal collection. We were told that results should be available two days after they get to the lab, which gives a week of quarantine at the very minimum, but the info also said that results could take longer, and not to chase up results until 5 days have gone by. So DS might be out of quarantine by the time he gets the results, and I might well end up missing a fortnight of work.

More like 72 hours here. Then I found a local number to ring and got them over the phone. 119 are beyond useless. They said they couldn't chase up the results because we didnt have a bar code number ( we were not given one). Which is different to the QR code you are logged against when at the testing site. Also 119 do not even highlight that you can get results there. If you want to speak to someone on that system when it asks if you want to speak in a different language, choose that option. It worked for me! Although they did not help.

Just got our results so took around 56 hours. Relieved kids can go to nursery tomorrow and I can get back to work! Not looking forward to repeats of throughout winter every time one of them develops a cough though