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‘I’ve got a text’ is a phrase often shouted by an excitable contestant on ITV’s Love Island.

But for me yesterday it marked the arrival of my coronavirus test result – negative.

Despite this I’ve been caught up in the so-called ‘pingdemic’ sweeping the nation as the NHS Covid-19 app has instructed me to isolate until Friday as I am a close contact of a confirmed coronavirus case.

Not for me, the beach trips, beer gardens and glorious sunbathing in the heatwave Horsham is currently basking in.

I got caught by the pingdemic and now I’m isolating through Horsham’s heatwave