Registering a test
Posted: November 4th, 2021, 4:38 pm
OK, I have a cold. Feels like a very normal sort of regular cold. Lots of coughing and a rough voice, no other obvious "covid" symptoms. I've excused myself from choir tonight.
Anyway, in the present climate of fear, I went to take a covid test "just to confirm". There's a NHS covid test van in a local car park, they were happy to do me. They took my sample to send off to a lab, told me to register it online.
So I just tried to register it online. Go through a lot of steps, some of them quite annoyingly pointless (like entering everything twice). Finally come to submit it. Whereupon it tells me (after all the crap):
It invites me to call 119, which I'd rather not, especially when I have the cold symptoms. What a waste of time and effort, not to mention the test!
Is this usual? I guess other Fools must've done similar tests: did their reporting system work?
Anyway, in the present climate of fear, I went to take a covid test "just to confirm". There's a NHS covid test van in a local car park, they were happy to do me. They took my sample to send off to a lab, told me to register it online.
So I just tried to register it online. Go through a lot of steps, some of them quite annoyingly pointless (like entering everything twice). Finally come to submit it. Whereupon it tells me (after all the crap):
Sorry, you cannot register a coronavirus test right now
It invites me to call 119, which I'd rather not, especially when I have the cold symptoms. What a waste of time and effort, not to mention the test!
Is this usual? I guess other Fools must've done similar tests: did their reporting system work?