If you haven't ordered any at all from them since September, you're allowed to place 2 orders instead of 1.

Each order gives you two packs of 2.

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Be sure to swab your throat after swabbing nose to avoid a false negative.

Like this:

The UK DHSC's official instructions:

Hold the handle of the swab with your fingers. Open your mouth wide. Rub the soft tip of the swab over both tonsils 4 times. Tonsils are soft pads at the back of your throat, 1 on each side. If you have no tonsils rub the swab on the sides of your throat.

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spoiler Throat rapid tests are preferred because COVID variants from Omicron onward gather in your throat, not your nose.

Update: From JN.1 onwards, it's back to your nose again.

Article about the difference: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-throat-swab-for-omicron-at-home-experts-2022-1

The FDA has authorized just one method of taking a COVID-19 rapid test: swabbing the inside of your nose.

But ever since Omicron came into force in the US in mid-December, some people have noted on social media that their rapid tests only come back positive after adding saliva to the mix.

Medical journal article: Saliva swabs are the preferred sample for Omicron detection

Rapid tests in other countries call them nose and throat kits now, because they're not behind like the FDA is.

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