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I believe the “confirmation code” that’s higher for 16th than the 22nd test is still suspicious though.

16th: 7371999-259039

22nd: 7320919-259039

Does anyone have an explanation of how that code works. Could it have been related to a manufacturing batch of tests that’s been used out of order?

Those of you here with test results how does that code relate to your testing date?

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I wouldn't have bet a public accusation of this magnitude on those auto-incrementing ID's. There's a possibility the earlier positive test was conducted privately and was only registered with the government at a later date when he knew it would be required for visa purposes.

The name of the institution that conducted the test is on the test result. It's a different one but I don't know if they would constitute private or public and how it works in Serbia.

In Serbia, only the state system is licensed to perform officially recognized PCR tests.

It could very well be a unique ID not for the test but for the generated pdf document. 100% have done a system like this and we put the ID of the "doc" rather than the internal entity. This is also not a smoking gun in my opinion.

That theory should be easy for someone from Serbia to check, by re-downloading their test results and seeing whether the ID changes.

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