Opinion | Private companies are exploiting international travelers with outrageous COVID-19 testing costs. By GabsP78.
place for COVID travel tests, behind only the US. With extortionate prices for PCR tests, overseas holidays were pushed off-limits for many UK families this year, making trips abroad a luxury of the better off.
The majority of the COVID testing budget was spent on re-entering Britain, where a compulsory day two test administered by Randox — hailed as theThis was on top of the 160 euros we had to pay just a couple of days earlier to acquire a negative COVID antigen test certificate in order to leave Spain. This nasal swab test, like the rapidthat are provided for free for domestic use in Britain, doesn't have to be sent off to a laboratory and provides results within 30 minutes.
"The government website advises the availability of £20 tests. However, these are so limited they are never available or are available by appointment only in certain locations, with 4 or 5 slots a day only," she told me. Some nations are even using COVID tests for travel as a political tool. France offered free COVID tests for tourists. However, as of July 7, 2021, the French government decided to make tourists pay for tests,
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