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Where are you managing to get Lateral Flow Tests??

86 replies

loveyouradvice · 04/01/2022 12:05

We are down to our last two and haven't been able to order more online for a few days.

Any advice about where we might get some?

Thanks

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Cookerhood · 04/01/2022 13:29

Twitter
twitter.com/LFT_alert

Comefromaway · 04/01/2022 13:29

There was a massive box full at the reception to ds’s college before Christmas. He bought a load home and we sent some to Dd as she has to test daily for work and was struggling to get them.

It’s a good job as fil tested positive a couple of days after he stayed with us at Christmas (pcr still hasn’t come back)

thewhatsit · 04/01/2022 13:29

I must have been very lucky. I went on to order some online for the first time in maybe a month or two.. ordered them no problem.

ilovesooty · 04/01/2022 13:39

And it's begun.

People have apparently been trying to cash in by selling them online, though Ebay have allegedly taken the adverts down now.

Sparkle275 · 04/01/2022 13:40

I've just managed to order some online on the gov website an hour ago.

everythingthelighttouches · 04/01/2022 13:49

I follow a bot on Twitter that tells you when LFTs become available.

Christ! That’s a sentence that would have made no sense to me two years ago!

heldinadream · 04/01/2022 14:05

[quote Cookerhood]Twitter
twitter.com/LFT_alert[/quote]
THANK YOU! Smile

liveforsummer · 04/01/2022 14:07

I ordered some online 2 days ago. Not sure if the post is back up and running though as they've not arrived and the bank is still closed today so I picked some up at the local walk in test centre

CalmDownBoris72 · 04/01/2022 14:09

I generated a code online and took it to my local pharmacy- they won’t give them out without the code. I’m in England.

RoseAndRose · 04/01/2022 14:30

I had been trying to order online for about a week with no success, but was able to place one this morning. Fingers crossed they turn up reasonable promptly.

We had enough to get us all through back to school testing and the first bit of twice weekly school tests, but none over that if anything else crops up, so I hope the newly rdered bix does not go AWOL!!
Just hope pupils will still be able to get them from schools as that worked really well before

gogohm · 04/01/2022 14:39

Online on Saturday

heldinadream · 04/01/2022 17:20

Just managed to order some after trying about fifty times a day for the last week and trawling the pharmacies. Whahay! Now to see if they turn up...

SuperLoudPoppingAction · 04/01/2022 17:23

Universities have great bins of them but might be tricky to wander in without ID.

I got some at the place where I got my booster.

55larry · 04/01/2022 17:26

If you live in Bath and North East Somerset there is van travelling around and visiting different places this week. I got given a box of 20 this afternoon. They will be about all week so check on line.

Sleepyblueocean · 04/01/2022 17:31

I ordered some online yesterday. I tried every 30 minutes until they were available.

Abraxan · 04/01/2022 17:31

Online. Ordered some last week, which arrived today, and also about half an hour ago online, via the government website.

Needing plenty in at the moment due to close contact guidelines.

DurhamDurham · 04/01/2022 19:32

Husband walked past a Supadrug today and saw someone walking out with a pack of LFTs so he went in and got a box. We'd ran out days ago and have been trying to order online ever since. He was just lucky to be in the right place at the right time.

SmallestInTheClass · 04/01/2022 20:08

Ordered on line one box on Sunday and one one today. Try at 7:30am and 12:30.

rrhuth · 04/01/2022 20:11

LFT testing site - look on your council website for your nearest one

Dontlickthetrolley · 04/01/2022 20:40

I've got a code from before Christmas that I haven't managed to "cash in" at a pharmacy, however, managed to get an on line order last Monday. Box appeared on Wednesday, then another 2 boxes appeared on Thursday 🤷‍♀️

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 04/01/2022 20:45

Our local authority (Kirklees) sets up a collection point in different parts of the borough every year.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 04/01/2022 20:45
  • day, not year
Lupinhere37 · 04/01/2022 20:55

I have a South Wales postcode and have never had any problems ordering them. It clearly says on the box that they’re dispatched from a Cardiff depot. Are the shortages regional, I wonder?

AnxiousHeffalump · 04/01/2022 21:00

School.

LilyPond2 · 04/01/2022 22:29

@Lupinhere37

I have a South Wales postcode and have never had any problems ordering them. It clearly says on the box that they’re dispatched from a Cardiff depot. Are the shortages regional, I wonder?
Yep, it was recently reported that Wales was helping England out with some of its surplus LFTs.