COVID DAY 2 AND DAY 8 TESTS WITH NOWTEST!!!!! EXTREMELY BAD !

silvercar

You are where you are - hopefully still at home, as it appears you don’t have the results of any test.

Moving forward, you should now post back your day 2 tests, by posting them in a priority post box. I suspect your samples would have dried out by now and your result may well be inconclusive or void, but at least you avoid a fine.

There seems some fault on both sides, inadequate communication from Nowtest and you holding onto the tests rather than posting them.
the task now is to get hold of those day 8 tests, if you have one then the logic is for the person who most needs to end their isolation to use it to gain freedom. So take the test and post that back ASAP.
In the mean time hopefully the remaining 4 day 8 tests will arrive and you can use them to gain freedom for the rest of your group. Otherwise you have to decide whether to pay for test and release.
It would also be worthwhile to apply for the free NHS LFTs, so at least you have some in stock for your own peace of mind.

CKhalvashi

onashoestring said:

GrumpyDil said:

I assume I'm missing something but how can they post the tests if they are supposed to be isolating? 

From the Gov website https://www.gov.uk/guidance/how-to-quarantine-when-you-arrive-in-england

 “Where your tests are delivered and self-administered, if there is no one in your household or bubble who can post the test for processing, you may leave the premises to post your test. “

Thanks onashoestrong, I was posting common sense with knowledge in one area, it's good to know that there's solid and sensible advice to back this up.

Penelopa.Pitstop

I read comments from someone who got tests (not sure from which company) by post and sent them back by post, but due to Easter and delays, he didn't receive results from Day 2 test yet, sent Day 8 test and is planning to go to work tomorrow. No results in the meantime. So it's just pure profit for test companies, but nothing for end customer.

silvercar

Penelopa.Pitstop said:

I read comments from someone who got tests (not sure from which company) by post and sent them back by post, but due to Easter and delays, he didn't receive results from Day 2 test yet, sent Day 8 test and is planning to go to work tomorrow. No results in the meantime. So it's just pure profit for test companies, but nothing for end customer.

It’s saving us from infections, if anyone tests positive!

he can’t legally go to work until he has his results from day 8 test, or has done test to release.

HampshireH

Penelopa.Pitstop said:

I read comments from someone who got tests (not sure from which company) by post and sent them back by post, but due to Easter and delays, he didn't receive results from Day 2 test yet, sent Day 8 test and is planning to go to work tomorrow. No results in the meantime. So it's just pure profit for test companies, but nothing for end customer.

I'm surprised his employer will have him. It blows their risk assessments out of the water and put all employees at risk at the same time.

jaybeetoo

Worth listening to BBC You & Yours today about the delays with COVID-19 testing https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000v2wr

Penelopa.Pitstop

HampshireH said:

Penelopa.Pitstop said:

I read comments from someone who got tests (not sure from which company) by post and sent them back by post, but due to Easter and delays, he didn't receive results from Day 2 test yet, sent Day 8 test and is planning to go to work tomorrow. No results in the meantime. So it's just pure profit for test companies, but nothing for end customer.

I'm surprised his employer will have him. It blows their risk assessments out of the water and put all employees at risk at the same time.

I guess, employer is not bothered, because he only received results from day 2 and went to work as expected.

silvercar

Penelopa.Pitstop said:

HampshireH said:

Penelopa.Pitstop said:

I read comments from someone who got tests (not sure from which company) by post and sent them back by post, but due to Easter and delays, he didn't receive results from Day 2 test yet, sent Day 8 test and is planning to go to work tomorrow. No results in the meantime. So it's just pure profit for test companies, but nothing for end customer.

I'm surprised his employer will have him. It blows their risk assessments out of the water and put all employees at risk at the same time.

I guess, employer is not bothered, because he only received results from day 2 and went to work as expected.

The implication is that he lied to his employer, either by stating that he had completed his required isolation or by omission in keeping quiet. Isolation after foreign travel requires you to remain in isolation until at least day 10 and receipt of a negative covid test taken following day 8. Alternatively having used the test and release scheme from day 5. If he hasn’t complied then he has lied to his employer, what action the employer takes is variable; I’m sure the employer would be harsher on an employee who was found to have delivered covid to the workforce having broken the rules, than one who hadn’t.

michael1234

Thrugelmir said:

Sometimes in life things go wrong. If fewer people were travelling internationally then there wouldn't be such stress on the system. Was your journey essential? Not as if global pandemics are a regular occurrence and there's an infrastructure in place. 

Was your question essential ? There are numerous highly valid reasons for travel. They include engineers travelling to fix vital infrastructure, medical professionals helping in other countries or this one, families that have been split up.

The OP came on here for advice not to be lecturered to. In my opinion the government has created a "hostile environment" of 6 hour queues at heathrow, highly expensive tests etc to dissuade those attempting to travel illegally on holiday. That tars everyone with the same brush.

If we as a country need certain peoiple to travel they should be allowed to travel. They should be expected to take whatever tests and other quarantine that is best practice but they should not be thrown additional hoops over and above that such as long queues when there are clearly very few passengers to be processed.

I know of one engineer who worked for a foreign company that was maintaining a traffic system in the UK. He came to the UK for 5 days and needed 5 tests including 2 identical PCR tests performed on the same day at the same time (test before he flew, mandatory day 2 and day 8 tests, day 5 "test to release" and a "fit to fly" test for his return journey.  Two of the tests were done on the same day, time and loication. That was a day 5 "test to release" PCR and a "fit to fly" test for his return home. They are marketed as different things as they are for different purposes but they are the same test. The private testing company wouldn't allow him to take one test and provide both certificates. So he had to have two swaps of his nose and mouth at the same time. Needless to say both test results came back with the same result. This is utter proffiteering by the private companies doing these days with the full backing of the government.

Perhaps if our power stations, trains, TV broadcasting stations,etc, etc stopped working because nobody wanted to maintain them might make people think there are actually some very good reason to move certain people about. Yes one day we could do it all in the UK maybe but right now engineering is a highly globalised buisness and engineering speciality is ditributed across the globe.

Thrugelmir

michael1234 said:

Thrugelmir said:

Sometimes in life things go wrong. If fewer people were travelling internationally then there wouldn't be such stress on the system. Was your journey essential? Not as if global pandemics are a regular occurrence and there's an infrastructure in place. 

Was your question essential ? There are numerous highly valid reasons for travel. They include engineers travelling to fix vital infrastructure, medical professionals helping in other countries or this one, families that have been split up.

The thousands of people travelling through Heathrow everyday suggest that many are putting their personal lives first. All these people rushing back from India to beat the deadline, have travelled out in the past year.  The Australians got it right from the off. Controlled re-entry and secure isolation.