This from the Guardian:
"I work in Parliament and developed the same symptoms as Nadine Dorries MP on the same day. I’ve had a dry cough, chest pain and fever for four days.
NHS 111 services triaged me away from Coronovirus on Friday. I could not be tested because I hadn’t been in close contact to a previously confirmed case.
The official 111 advice for me this morning - after calling again to check after hearing about Nadine Dorries MP - is to go to work with a cough, wash my hands, and assume that I don’t have it. (I am actually going to ignore that advice and work from home.)
I am worried that only testing people who have been ‘contact traced’ is missing a lot of people in the community, and that people like me may have coronavirus and are being advised to go to work anyway. Is this because the Government simply can’t do the number of tests needed?"
There is a fiasco brewing...
Originally Posted by: Justin W