.. to ask you what you think? Likelihood of it being covid??

[pistedap]

Hi everyone!

I'm currently abroad with my DP and his parents in Spain.
We have been as careful as possible, wearing masks, hand washing and sanitising and keeping distance where possible but have also enjoyed eating out in the evenings a couple of times over the course of the week.

Anyway - fast forward to now, and DP's dad is showing some strange symptoms and not feeling well at all;

• hot and cold chills
• shivery
• achey
• headache
• muscle pains
• lethargic
• says it's effort to walk / move at all
• seems to be getting a slight cough

At first we wondered if it could be heat stroke, since we have been blessed with some glorious weather this past week.. but now we are worried it could be covid.
We have our PCR tests booked tomorrow afternoon as we need to prove a negative test to get back home.

Has anybody had covid and recognise the above symptoms as covid symptoms..? We are really unsure as to what it could be, sadly don't have a thermometer here to check his temperature but he does feel hot to the touch.

Just feeling a bit worried! 😟

Those are the exact symptoms I had at the start of getting ill when I had covid a few weeks ago.

@Ekofisk

What’s the point in taking LFTs if you’re symptomatic?

Because the symptoms listed by the Government for legitimately getting a PCR test are hopelessly out of date for the Delta variant.

And it was in response to the PP stating that LFTs are only for asymptomatic testing. They clearly work for symptomatic people.

They did not work for me when I had Covid.