COVID tests for home delivery

I ordered a set of 5 test kits from Lazada (the only ones I could find), but not yet delivered. Price is reasonable at 799 Php excluding shipping.

The description on Lazada isn't quite clear, but I found the exact same set (from same producer in China) on a German wholesale webshop with a better description and a list of approvals for the product.
In short, I think it is a legit product.
The RITM institute in the Philippines (part of DOH) has just finished a report on rapid antigen tests, but the FDA (Philippines) has yet to take any action on that, so don't expect stuff to be available in local pharmacies anytime soon.

 

Since I agree 100% about the test center this is just to create a discission.
If you get the home test
And it shows possitive
Then what?

I don't know your daily routine, if you have a company to run or a need to go to town and talk to people daily. I assume most of us are retired and just work around the house and property...so.....
For the group- how would knowing change your what you do over the next 5 days?

 

Well, obviously not knowing you're infected while you are is the worst (because of the danger to others).
That can hardly be avoided though as long as you are free of symptoms.
If you do know you're infected, either through a RAT (rapid antigen test) or a PCR test then the obvious thing to do is quarantine (with your entire household), even if you are symptom free or feeling just a bit under the weather.
Whether that represents a change of behaviour depends on the individual and his circumstances.
At the very least one should arrange for groceries to be delivered rather than a household member getting them.
As far as hesitancy to get a PCR test and face possible quarantine in a public facility is concerned, I very much share that hesitancy, so would much prefer to quarantine at home instead if the situation would warrant that.

 

The lateral flow test showed negative a few times before my wife, feeling really ill was given a PCR test which she was told was positive.
I picked her up from the local A&E unit and we both isolated for 10 days, expecting that I might get the virus too. She is now feeling much better and has been advised to abstain from returning to work for another week.
I have managed to avoid getting the virus so far and now able to go out and about again. Thankfully we had friends drop food and shopping off on the doorstep for which we were grateful.
I think Icould get use to this monastic life, with full control of the TV remote!!!!

 

The provincial government has issued a long list of accredited antigen test kits, but cannot find any for sale in Dumaguete.

 

I know maybe over 20 people (family and friends) who have been sick in the past couple weeks. I was just sick myself last week. After dinner I was not feeling well, had a headache and body aches and slight fever. Took paracetamol and went to bed early. Next day couldn't get out of bed until almost noon. But, by the next day I was starting to feel better, and then it went away. My wife went through the same course, as did everybody else I know who was sick. Everybody says this is a mild 48 hour flu bug that is going around. But, I wonder, if you're fully vaccinated (everybody I know is), and are exposed to omicron, maybe this is how it goes. I didn't go get tested, nobody I know went to get tested. Like Rye is thinking now that he should get tested, by the time you start thinking that you should get tested, you start feeling better and so don't bother (I hope that's how it goes for you Rye!).

 

https://www.covidtests.gov/

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