Woman Fakes Positive COVID-19 Test To Escape ‘Worst Date’ Of Her Life

A woman in the U.K. claimed she used a fabricated positive COVID-19 test result to get out of what she called the "worst" date she's ever had in her life.

The unnamed woman was dining at a restaurant with her date when she went to the bathroom and messaged a friend for help on how she can cut the dinner short, 7News.com.au reported.

"It's probably the worst f-----g date I've ever had in my life. I need to leave, I cannot spend any more time here," the woman was quoted as saying in a video uploaded on the TikTok account, "tin.tin__1."

The woman claimed she told her friend to send her a fake positive COVID-19 test result through text, and she showed it to her date after changing the sender’s name to "NHS PCR TEST."

"Your coronavirus lateral flow test result is positive. It’s likely you are infectious," read the fake message from the U.K.'s National Health Service.

“I said, ‘Look, you’re not going to believe it, but I’ve tested positive.’ He said, ‘What are you going to do?’ and I said, ‘Well I’m going to have to go home,’” she explained in the video.

The woman — having used the text to leave behind her date — then went to a nightclub with a friend and met another man.

Her original video, which had the caption, "Literally it was so bad I faked a positive COVID test so I could go home," has since been viewed nearly 280,000 times on TikTok.

Some commenters pointed out that the woman’s text should have shown a positive PCR result instead of a lateral flow result as the latter was a home test.

Others, meanwhile, saw the funny side to the woman's situation, with a TikTok user writing, "This has made my day."

"Him now isolating for seven days," another user said, joking that the woman's date was probably in quarantine after being shown the fake positive result.

A number of women also said that they were going to use the same excuse the next time they end up stuck on a bad date.

The U.K. has reported a total of 15,064,694 COVID-19 cases and 151,833 virus-related deaths since the pandemic began, data provided by Johns Hopkins University showed.