If you have the main symptoms you need pcr test not the lateral flow!

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Just to remind people that for symptoms its pcr (test centre or postal) not the weekly lateral flow tests.

I have seen many people now thinking the lateral flow are enough. Those are for asymptomatic only as they do not pick up more than half the positives.

You would have thought everyone would know this by now! I know whenever I've had an LFT they ask at the door if you have any symptoms and if you do you're turned away and told to book pcr.

Yup!

This is one of the consequences the government appears not to have thought about when they started handing out LFT kits to millions of people....