Panic in Barnsley as local man’s Coronavirus test comes back negative
2020-03-02
There was widepread panic in Barnsley this morning as it emerged that a local man has tested negative for the Coronavirus. The man, who can’t be named for spurious reasons, had taken the test after feeling a ‘bit gippy’ after ordering some crispy duck over the phone from a local Chinese takeaway.
Wombwell woman Sharon Slack spoke for a number of people we talked to in the area this morning. “This is devastating news.” she told The Bugle through an interpreter “We were hoping for positive news so to get a negative is a real knock back. If this gets any worse I think you’ll start to see people using soap.”
The response to the negative test result is in stark contrast to the celebrations in the area a few years ago, when regular readers may recall that a number of visitors to a popular local dogging site were relieved to receive positive results from their HIV tests.
