Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

oh yes, i read right over that bit

Followup would be:

Current situation is my daughter and her mum live in House, I live in separate Flat, but we are in the same bubble so I come to the House most days, but sleep at my flat. If the Americans come stay in the House, can I still continue to come and go and sleep at my flat?

Now antigen tests are allowed for some OS travel, but it seems the UK has simply priced them similarly to PCR tests. Anyone got a line on cheapest antigen tests in London?

Edit - ignore me I see you aren't allowed to use NHS ones for travel

The antigen test takes less time to come round though, doesn't it?

At boots the PCR is £85 and the antigen is £60 so there's that.

I'm also interested (and was going to go down the Boots route).

Boots was the cheapest we'd found but still double what you'd pay in the EU. #brokenbritain

Haven’t found a PCR for less than €90 here in Germany. Haven’t really looked though, TBF.

PCR €45 at the airport, €80 in town. Don’t really get the airport one as presumably you need it to board yet there’s a 24-36 hour wait.

Antigen in Greece and Spain are both 30EU

Those we can get for free once a week here, our passports are a hideous burgundy though.

So is my British passport. My Aussie one... blue for decades. British => shit rib

Actually I think the NHS is doing free antigen (and so is work) but they're no good for travel.

n00b question: I see that you can collect free lateral flow tests from Lloyds pharmacy. How does this actually work? Do I need to book the tests for click and collect or do I just go and queue up? Then the results are available to you directly - how do you show this evidence - take a photo? Take the physical test result?

Just go and get one for free, no need to book.

Register results on the NHS website. All the details in the box.

Bowl in and ask for a test at the pharmacy desk, they'll give you a box of six then you just take the test at home and it has s QR you use you upload the results on the government website

They can't verify the results, I could test positive and not bother uploading the results or just report I'm negative but assume they think if you've gone to the effort of a home test you'll report accurately

Yeh TUI are selling tests for £20 to those that booked package holidays with them, not sure if they are subsiding the tests or that reflects what they actually cost

I was in the far west of cornwall until yesterday.
The place is awash with tourists coughing their lungs out. The campsite I was in had at least three people with the classic Corona upper chest cough, hacking their way through each night.

It was grim.

St.Ives was absolutely packed. Coughing everywhere. I saw a good few shops and cafes were closed with signs taped on their windows saying they were closed due to coronavirus.

I'm essentially isolating now and testing every other day as a precaution.

The place is awash with tourists coughing their lungs out. The campsite I was in had at least three people with the classic Corona upper chest cough, hacking their way through each night.

Not looking to excuse, but in case you're anxious - after the hot spell in early June we had the downpour which brings a lot of shite down out the atmosphere, I'm now in peak asthma season.
Had a PCR delivered the Monday after Friday's rain and it came back negative. I LF twice a week for work, but me and the fam are coughing away. Probably looks terrible to everyone else that thinks I just dngaf...

Edit - ignore me I see you aren't allowed to use NHS ones for travel

Why is the NHS one good enough for my customer facing job, but not for travel?

Also been a peak time for hayfever which has (at least for me) the classic 'consistent dry cough' symptom

This is a wedding so not a package deal but I guess that's nice of them.

Because some prick isn't making a fortune off the NHS ones?

Anecdata, but my wife and both boys have had cough/virus things, all have had negative lateral flow and PCR throughout as we wanted to regularly check. At the 3yo’s nursery so many have a cough and all parents swear they are tested and negative.

Edited: obviously on the topic of people with coughs not necessarily having Covid. But I get it, I’d be wary too and uncomfortable in some settings.

Similar, I get a cough at this time of year from all of the plane tree spunk.

I have a monthly PCR test (ONS study, latest one this morning) and do Lateral Flow tests every couple of weeks if we're off to visit people. All negative.

Onset of hay fever symptoms this year was literally overnight and so severe it completely caught me off guard.

First box of lateral flow tests acquired, cheers all.

Torridon?