What's the quickest you've had a PCR back?

[WaterBottle123]

DD had one at 8.30 this morning- wondering if there's any chance of an 8 hour turnaround so she can see school play this eve....

11 hours during half term, we are south west England

Ours have usually been 14-20 hours. (7 visits - when 2 of us have tested at the same time the results always came together)

PCR test at drive-through centre at 1.15pm, I got my (positive) result back at 6.30pm, but dh's didn't come through until the following morning.

I knew it would be positive through as I'd had a positive LFT, as had dh.

...this was in Glasgow.

Tested this morning 9.30 had results back 7pm this evening. Very quick.

5 hours.

Test at 9am and results x1 at 2pm and x2 at 5pm (3 people tested)

26 hours, done via post. London based.

23 hours and still no results so looking at a second day of trying to work plus clingy child.

1st world problem I know

Last week ds1 was tested at 8.30am, results back (by email) at 11.20pm that night and a follow up text first thing the next morning. They must have a policy of not texting overnight.

@WaterBottle123

23 hours and still no results so looking at a second day of trying to work plus clingy child.

1st world problem I know

My daughters was 9.30 yesterday and we got the results at 6.30 this morning

Can I jump on to ask what the longest is that anyone has waited for their pcr result back?

Coming up to 48 hours here which I know is within guidelines but am getting anxious it's been lost or there's a problem 😬

@WaterBottle123 hope your daughter's results come back soon.

We're still waiting after 24 hours. Did them 10.
30am yesterday. Last time we got the results at 2am the same day!

The last two PCR results I received for DS took 13 - 14 hours, following tests first thing in the morning.

Under 12 hours. Afternoon test. Results around 1-2am.

@MWestie one took between 48-72 hours another never arrived (but actually I think that was an error as we were given a replacement tube that we now think was without bar code sticker)

Thanks @StrawHats, I do hope it's not 72 hours, not sure why such variation and the person at the test centre said would be next day.

I always had them back in the early hours of the following day, no matter at what time I was having the test done (that happened about 8-10 times now between all of us in my household).
However, I took a test two days ago and...nothing yet! I am a bit shocked but I guess they are now overwhelmed? Strange as I took one the day before, that resulted inconclusive, but I got the results back early morning the following day as usual.

@user1471523870 what do you mean by "that resulted inconclusive", is it not just positive or negative? Am confused! Can you tell we've not done many of these 😁

Im on in the Liverpool region and have had our last 2 tests (2 months apart) back in under 4 hours! Both times testing about 10:30am

We had an 8 hour last week. Longest was my positive at 25hours

[quote MWestie]@user1471523870 what do you mean by "that resulted inconclusive", is it not just positive or negative? Am confused! Can you tell we've not done many of these 😁[/quote]
It means you’ll need to do it again as they couldn’t read the test. It happened to me so I did another.

@MWestie

Can I jump on to ask what the longest is that anyone has waited for their pcr result back?

Coming up to 48 hours here which I know is within guidelines but am getting anxious it's been lost or there's a problem 😬

@WaterBottle123 hope your daughter's results come back soon.

Over 72 hours and I rang to chase.

1pm test, 9pm result and 6pm test, 7am result

[quote MWestie]@user1471523870 what do you mean by "that resulted inconclusive", is it not just positive or negative? Am confused! Can you tell we've not done many of these 😁[/quote]
It happened to me already twice! No idea why, but it means they were not able to analyze the sample and I had to re-do it.
Annoying!

Thanks @Iggly.
Hoping delay doesn't mean more likely to be positive...