How long did it take to receive your COVID test result?

[sagarich]

My 16 month old son had a test last Monday (12/10/20), high temp for 48 hours and has underlying health conditions (he’s now fine, couple of hours after test).

Unfortunately we’re still awaiting a result... called 119 after 72 hours, told we need to call back after 5 days. So, we did. It’s now been escalated to an investigation team... that will come back to us within 48 hours.

My 4 year old can’t go back to school until we provide proof of negative result... but we’re getting nowhere with the call centre. I know they are under huge loads, but just trying to gauge if it’s an isolated incident or and issue for more.

We’re based in Hampshire, if it helps.

Edited by sagarich on Monday 19th October 07:06

[sagarich]

V88Dicky said:

Hope your little lad recovers soon.

But to be fair, a 16 month old with Covid19 is incredibly rare, like one in a (multi) million....

All the best

These were also our thoughts, but with our families recent run of bad luck and also his high exposure to a ward for blood transfusions, we thought we better get it checked.

[sagarich]

mcelliott said:

My wife is just about to take my son to hospital for a test, last Friday his mate thought it funny to cough into his face, he had a stinking cold at the time. Started going down with cold like symptoms last night, his school say he's not to come in until his symptoms have gone, the ball ache is that he's right in the middle of GCSE course work.

Wow! His mate is a complete moron!