You are reading a single comment by @Bezzin and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
-
Thanks @Jimm and @rj and @Greenbank
Situation probably not helped by not receiving letters for a few days (weirdly parcels are fine)
Bezzin-
Situation probably not helped by not receiving letters for a few days (weirdly parcels are fine)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55591063
Somewhere else I read they were prioritising parcels over letters at the moment too. (It'll be related to different staffing requirements to drive vans to deliver parcels than walk the streets to deliver letters...)
Greenbank
Still waiting for the latest results from swabs taken ~midday last Saturday, so that's 7 days so far.
The nurse did say that there was a backlog of testing due to Christmas, the most recent test was 6 weeks from the last one, so I guess there's a backlog processing them and, as you say and quite rightly, they are probably processing other tests as a priority over the ONS tests (which are just for a population wide study).
The nurse also said that we'd probably get another visit in 2 weeks (so trying to keep to the overall 4 week schedule rather than automatically being 4 weeks from the last one).
[EDIT] Results (negative) arrived in the post this morning. Letter dated 12th Jan (test was on 9th Jan). None of us received a text with the results which I thought we'd asked for. (Not fussed, it's a population wide study not an individual testing programme after all.)