Coronavirus tests carried out on the Isle of Wight will be sent to the mainland for testing and to get the results.
Despite a mobile testing unit opening at Medina Leisure Centre car park, stopping the need of residents having to travel to be tested, the tests will still be sent across the Solent for analysis.
Before the news of the mobile testing unit arriving on the Island, concerns were raised by keyworkers and their families about having to travel across to the mainland to be tested for COVID-19.
Following the announcement of the testing unit, questions continued to be asked about whether or not results could be determined on the Island to cut out the need for further travel.
According to information from the government, tests will be sent to 1 of 3 ‘Lighthouse Labs’, a diagnostic network of labs, which have been specifically designed to determine the results of COVID-19 tests. Results will then be released to the tested in 48 hours.
However, the sites are in Glasgow, Cheshire and, the closet to the Island, Milton Keynes — meaning tests will be sent more than 125 miles away. There, tests will be looked at for signs of the virus’s genetic material showing whether someone is currently infected.
The Island’s testing unit has been set up through partnerships in the local resilience forum to access local facilities.
Not surprised that the swabs need to go to the mainland for analysis But after 3.30pm tomorrow we are back to no Island testing centre so nothing has changed, we the care and key workers are being hung out to dry and the life’s of the old and vulnerable that we care for put at risk. Many of these people have fought for this country and yet the powers that be are prepared to make sacrofial lambs of them.
Local councillors, MP and planners take note this is due to you
Let’s hope they don’t send it by drone.
Pointless, as all those tested today who then go into the front line tomorrow could have it by close of play.
HMG know we are all likely to catch it eventually. They just wanted enough beds provided so we can then all die in relative secrecy in hospital, nameless and just become a number in a total growing daily tally.
That way, it looks better on HMG the Tory party, and the NHS than if they had not had a temporary lockdown, as then the hospitals could never admitted all the dying.
The worlds media would have disgraced the Tories, the UK and the NHS for a generation or more before it got ‘over’ the damage.
This way, it looks as though they ‘care’ which to a degree they obviously do, but the same amount will die, but importantly to them, in manageable numbers over a longer time span and out of the medias ‘gaze’.
THINK of how YOU would play it IF you were HMG.
There is no soft option.