Covid recovery cert with lateral flow test?

[CrumblyFox]

Has anyone reported a positive lateral flow test with the nhs since the start of April? If so, did you get a recovery certificate?

Just wondering if my adult DD will get a Covid recovery certificate like she did when she had a positive PCR.

No not for lft

You only get one for a PCR.

Thank you both. It seems very odd that a current positive LFT shows up on the Covid app yet this doesn’t then lead to the reporting of a person’s recovery some way.

You can get a private recovert cert from many places... looks like they will take NHS lft test evidence.

I assume it's because the LFT is self reporting, so anyone could just put they've had a positive test 3 or 4 weeks before they travel to avoid having to have a test/vaccine. A PCR is more official hence it triggers the recovery certificate.

@Abraxan I agree it could be open to abuse but doesn’t it just seems odd that LFT results were ‘believed’ earlier in the year, even in the absence of a PCR, at a time when isolation was compulsory.

They could also be open to abuse then ( eg getting time off work when not actually ill ). I just think either the self reporting is okay or it’s not okay. I don’t understand why there’s a ‘two tier’ system for when it counts and when it doesn’t.

You could also end up with a travel scenario whereby someone could only travel with a booster, yet the booster would be too close to catching Covid if they’d recovered recently but only got a pcr (within 8-12 weeks). Does that make sense?