Coronavirus test centre question.

apache

I have a dilemma I hope someone will be able to help me with. Work sent us all to be mass tested for Covid this week. I don't drive. Luckily a colleague had a test in the same centre at the same time so he gave me a lift.

I think you get retested in 7 days but my problem is getting to the location. Would a taxi driver be willing to take me to a testing centre? I could get a taxi to the nearest pub and walk but there are no foothpaths so too dangerous. Should work provide me with transport if they want me to take the test? We all got tested on our due off day.

spurious

I know when I brought my mother to be tested in the National Show Centre in Swords, there were many people arriving by taxi.

apache

Hopefully the taxi driver dosen't have a problem with it.

Mrs OBumble

apache wrote: »

Should work provide me with transport if they want me to take the test?

Yes, of course they should!

apache

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Yes, of course they should!

Should they?

I'd have to ask the taxi driver to wait on me while I'm getting tested. Can't see too many drivers being happy with that. Just because you are getting tested as a precaution makes some people believe you have it.

apache

We have to get tested now on a regular basis. Will get on to the union tomorrow to find out if the job should provide transport or not. Noone seems to know. It's becoming very difficult for me to get out to test centre.

Mrs OBumble

apache wrote: »

We have to get tested now on a regular basis. Will get on to the union tomorrow to find out if the job should provide transport or not. Noone seems to know. It's becoming very difficult for me to get out to test centre.

Surely they should be providing on-site testing, if it's that regular. Testing should be done on work time, too.

Postgrad10

You won’t be ten minutes in the test centre. In and out job.

apache

:eek:

Postgrad10 wrote: »

You won’t be ten minutes in the test centre. In and out job.

That's all well and good if a taxi will take me.

The Union says you have to make your own way there. There's no subs because it's a national pandemic.

condubh

I’m a tester and people do indeed come by taxi.

I think it’s mad that drivers are agreeing to it but I guess they need the work. Possibly there might be taxi companies that have some kind of agreement with the HSE to take in people who can’t otherwise make it, same way some hospitals have taxi companies who are the go-to guys for taking patients home etc

shesty

I suspect a few people also arrive by bus...it appeared that way when I was at the Show Centre there before Christmas.....

Wesser

Theres a special taxi called lynk taxi at do a covi19 taxi. They clean alot before and after. Theres a special charge
Of course the taxi man will have no.problem waiting. Youll be paying him!

apache

Wesser wrote: »

Theres a special taxi called lynk taxi at do a covi19 taxi. They clean alot before and after. Theres a special charge
Of course the taxi man will have no.problem waiting. Youll be paying him!

Thanks very much. I'll have a look into that.

apache

condubh wrote: »

I’m a tester and people do indeed come by taxi.

I think it’s mad that drivers are agreeing to it but I guess they need the work. Possibly there might be taxi companies that have some kind of agreement with the HSE to take in people who can’t otherwise make it, same way some hospitals have taxi companies who are the go-to guys for taking patients home etc

I'll ring around a few taxi companies and ask them.

apache

shesty wrote: »

I suspect a few people also arrive by bus...it appeared that way when I was at the Show Centre there before Christmas.....

It would take 4 buses there and back! I'm not doing that. There's no footpath there either. It's a dangerous road.

EB_2013

A person I worked with got collected and brought back with the Civil Defence. They needed a test and couldn't get to the centre and didn't want to use a taxi or public transport. This was in Dublin so I don't know if they provide this outside of the city centre.