So I ordered a COVID home testing kit and posted it off last Thursday. It is now a week later and I still haven't heard back for the results - and then I realised that I didn't register.
I got an email on the day I received the test, which gave me a code, and it said "please keep this code for later." The "for later" bit confused me, so I wrote the code down in a notepad and totally forgot to read the rest of the email, where there was a link (somewhere near the bottom of the page) to register in order to get my result.
I read the email again today and found the register bit, but although I have the code it still doesn't let me register now because it wanted the barcode number that was on the box that I posted the completed test in. So I shall never know my results.
I thought it registered automatically when I ordered the test, as it asked me to put in my email address and phone number and I ticked a box to say that I wanted my results sent to me by email or text. I'd also put in my name, date of birth, area code and address, and I also wrote that same information on a little form that came with the kit and posted it off with the test, as instructed. I thought that the code was going to be used to confirm that I'm me when I get the test results, but I was wrong.
It should say at the top of the email "please register using this code, before posting your test".
What a waste of time. I don't see any point in doing it again. I take it that I'm negative anyway, because my boyfriend would have caught it by now (since it has been 14 days since I last came in contact with a potential carrier) and my boyfriend is at extremely high risk so he would have been in hospital on a ventilator by now.
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