If that’s the case the messaging hasn’t been terribly good on it, if they want everyone to be doing it they need to be sending out letters to everyone instructing them to do so because I’ve seen 0 messaging indicating as such. Just telling the papers to tell that to people isn’t good enough, there’s plenty of us that don’t bother with reading them because they’re mostly full of garbage.
Agree 100%. They’ve been asking people without symptoms to get tested for at least 6 months but there’s never been any concerted effort put into publicising it. The local test centre at Kingston is only for regular testing yet I’ve never seen any advice about this & most people I speak to aren’t aware & many even say I’m wrong & it should only be those with symptoms that go. We’ve been there every week since it opened.
The emphasis has now moved to home testing, you order test kits via NHS website/app. Again, apart from a couple of very low key tv advers & the odd half arsed comment “get a test” by politicians there’s been very little publicity.
They say that most people infected with covid now don’t show symptoms yet can still spread it even if you’ve been vaccinated. We both come into contact with quite a few people through work so we test the family (with home tests now)a couple of times a week to protect us & others.
P. S. When you do the test you're asked to report the result, it's easy to do & it allows "them" totrack the infection. You can report multiple family member's results etc at the same time. I was surprised when I reported the first results that we all got a text message telling us we'd had a test & it was negative.
Order kits here (they're delivered next day)
https://www.gov.uk/order-coronavirus-rapid-lateral-flow-tests