Have been carrying out COVID19 testing at work today. In the last seven or so days, we have lost four staff, but thanks to the way testing for COVID-19 has been improved, we have got two back already and one more is returning tomorrow.
But today we tested frontline workers. I was one of the volunteers for testing and carried all (but my own) out. Not all got tested, but some of us did as a way of the health service trying to find out how many people in the NHS are working but are asymptomatic carriers.
The procedure was uncomfortable and carried a risk of spreading infection in itself. Also it was meant to have been carried out yesterday but we were not sent the samples. And now it is a wait for the results. Considering how we are monitoring temperatures at work now, I doubt that anyone will be found to be a carrier.
