A reader has got in touch to highlight the Government’s confusion over testing requirements for people travelling to Spain. Visitors must either show proof of vaccination (with two doses) or of a recent Covid test to be granted entry to the country. The reader hopes to travel to Spain with their 16 year-old child, ruling out the vaccine option. This is where they noticed an error on the Gov.uk website, which says:
[Arrivals must show] documentation issued within 48 hours prior to arrival in Spain, certifying that you have undertaken a Covid test, e.g. PCR, TMA, LAMP or NEAR, and tested negative. Antigen tests are not currently accepted. [Emphasis added]
The website tells readers to “see Spain Travel Health page for specific details regarding the documentation you must present to accredit your Covid test results and proof of vaccination”. But when you do this, you find that antigen tests are, in fact, accepted, so long as the providers are approved by the European Commission.
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A number of the rapid antigen tests listed on the European Commission website are available in the U.K.
The reader even went to the trouble of contacting the Spanish health authorities to confirm that arrivals with proof of a negative result from an antigen test will be allowed entry. The response confirms that the information on the U.K. Government’s website is incorrect.
The diagnostic tests valid for travel to Spain are the NAAT (for instance, PCR, TMA or LAMP) and antigen tests, taken during the 48 hours prior to arrival in Spain.
So why is the Government telling Brits that proof of antigen testing is not accepted for travel, but that more time-consuming and, importantly, more expensive methods of testing are? The reader who contacted us seems to be on to something: “Our Government is doing everything it can to make life as awkward as possible for unvaccinated people.”
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Moreover, why isn’t T-SPOT testing mentioned anywhere?
Didn’t even know about this test. Thanks for the information.
Because they are natural immunity deniers
Governments : Making Things More Difficult And More Expensive Since Year Dot
Errr, does this question even need to be asked at this stage ?
Or does the editorial staff really think they are dealing with idiots?
Maybe it’s a rhetorical question.
“Why Is the Government Making Testing for Travel More Difficult Than It Needs to Be?”
Because the government wants the oiks to stop travelling abroad so that the UK can cut its CO2 contribution to the atmosphere from “tiny” to “still tiny” by 2030 and in so-doing we can fail to stop the climate changing in the way that it always has while destroying our economy and allowing China to strengthen its economic grip on the world.
That pretty much sums it up. But I also think it has something to do with the rich getting tired of common pleb crowding up their vacation spots.
Oh yes, and the rich and powerful getting richer and more powerful in the process.
By design
HEADLINE; YOU ARE FREETO TRAVEL
Small print. We will make the rules for travel impossible to comply with
Well, of course they are deliberately creating obstacles for those who refuse the vaccine – it’s all part of their bullying campaign to try to force people to give in. It all fits well with the strategy of harassment by letter and text, and the assorted nudging and propaganda.
And ironically, in a couple of years, the unvaccinated may be the only people healthy enough to fly.
Because the whole point of this, as well as the climate change agenda, is to limit people’s freedom of travel. They are trying to make it either too expensive or too inconvenient for people to go on vacation.
I’ve more or less resigned myself to the fact that I’m never goung abroad again in my lifetime. I got in a fair amount of foreign travel in prior to this shitshow so I’ll just have to be content with memories. It’s a shame though…I was planning to go back to Australia for a fourth time but this time fly business class because I had the money set aside for it. Oh well, it’s their loss, but what can you do?
Overthrow the world’s governments. That is our only remaining option.
Yes – but, us and whose army?
It was admitted in Israel that testing would be made more difficult and expensive to withdraw it as an option. Vaccines were to be the only option
We know that travel restrictions make no difference in managing covid, certainly for those countries in which covid is already endemic. We actually effectively “knew” that before this pandemic started, by analogy with other respiratory viruses we have lots of experience dealing with.
So the issue is not how much restriction we should be tolerating, but what are the (various, doubtless) ulterior motives behind those who are pushing such controls.
And the goal should not be to reduce the restrictions, but to have their inherent futility recognised and to abolish them all. Return to the status quo ante, as far as travel is concerned, and resume debating what changes need to be made on an honest basis.
I’m a big believer in strong border controls, and aware of the huge harms inflicted by mass migration. But we are fools if we think that this can be solved by allowing the state and parties with ulterior motives to scare us into letting them impose covid-based controls. That’s like allowing fear of gun crime to be used to scaremonger you into backing state gun bans. The result is that criminals have access to guns and non-criminals don’t. Similarly, the illegal immigrants will still come in, but lawful travellers will find it far more costly and inconvenient. Any small decrease in the former is hugely outweighed by the harms of the latter.
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‘ A post ADE departure lounge’
It couldn’t be anything to do with them being a bunch of cunts could it?
There should be no testing for those without symptoms.
The only way out of this was always herd immunity. We should be enhancing the spread to bring that about.
This is it, stop the bloody testing and this disappears immediately. people can go back to their normal colds & sniffles
Dodgy tests built on asymptomatic myths. Get rid of the dodgy bought scientists and ersatz corporate science mafia and the whole thing collapses.
I just got a curious letter from the Welsh NHS.
“… Our records indicate that you have not yet taken up the offer of a vaccine. … Getting vaccinated is the best way to help get our lives back to normal. For example:
• Holidays, where countries are likely to ask if you have been vaccinated;
• Return to sporting events and other restricted activities;
• Allowing full scale weddings and funerals of loved ones;
• Continue to enjoy recently restored freedoms and avoid further lockdowns.”
I looked up a definition of Vaccine in the dictionary, and indeed it says:
noun. /ˈvæksiːn/ /vækˈsiːn/ a substance that is put into the blood and that protects the body from a disease, thus ensuring that the vaccinated person can go on holiday, enjoy sporting events, attend full-scale weddings and funerals of loved ones, and continue to enjoy freedoms previously withdrawn by authoritarian governments.
However, in their letter, the NHS missed out the bit about how the vaccine can protect the body from disease. How careless of them.
I hate sporting events, but I demand my right to have the potential to go to one, so I’m off to the quack’s tomorrow to shoot up with Government-approved experimental gunk.
Yes it’s disgusting isn’t it. I can’t believe that people I previously thought of as intelligent now think it’s a perfectly acceptable premise to get a “vaccination” so that they can get their freedoms back.
Write back and tell them their letter looks awfully like coercion, and you’ll be consulting a lawyer as to its legality.
Coercion plain and simple.
Absolute risk reduction?
Welcome to Wales: “Enjoy the full-scale neurological thrill of Bell’s Palsy and ‘nothing to see here’ triage.”
More full-scale funerals please. Bring your own quick lime and JCB.
Or just say NO.
I think it’s time to jolly well give this government a break, after it’s trying its level best for the country. It has been careful in its spending, ministers have voluntarily taken pay cuts to take a little load from the nation’s coffer’s, and most of those wonderful companies rushing forward to undertake contracts in areas they had previously no expertise in are doing so with the best of intentions.
Yesterday I see, ever mindful of ‘every little helps’, the government is agreeing to swap old vaxx for new vaxx with Israel. It seems the damned ungrateful Palestinian Authority refused to jab its people with Pfizer vaccines that were approaching the expiry date – so step forward Boris and the NHS to fly a million niffy doses over here to jab into the exposed deltoids of those plucky British already well used to food banks and bargain bins.
Queue black and white newsreel of toothless kids’ smiles, waving union jacks and Pathe News music.
Gawd save the Queen!!
At the start you almost had me there.
Because the aim is to limit the spread of humans not the virus.
Anyone else noticed trains have gone up in price massively? Probably because they’re half empty for some stupid reason.
To highlight the point I made below that these kinds of restrictions will not in any degree reduce the ongoing disaster of mass immigration, here’s what the Biden Administration in the US is implementing alongside all the literally stupid covid travel inconveniences and restrictions:
Tucker Carlson: They have lost control
(They haven’t “lost control”, rather they’ve intentionally released control.)
Wtf ?!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uw5evPUWlu0
Donald Trump slams border security operations under Biden administration
Former President Donald Trump teamed up with Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas on border security. Abbott, a Trump ally, has pledged to finished construction of the wall in his state.
There should be no testing at all so the word “need” is not appropriate
I refuse to get tested not because of the expense or inconvenience but because testing is part of the mechanism of the Big Lie
My position as well.
Me three. If the travel operators and airlines want to have a thriving industry again then they need to petition for no tests not cheaper ones.
“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” ― Ronald Reagan
The only possible ‘excuse’ for the UK Govt is that Spain has been totally inconsistent over the last 12 months with which tests it would accept. And indeed different regions within Spain have had different policies. For instance at the start of January we went to the Canaries, which had for several months ignored the federal government and included antigen tests on their lists. At that time Spain Feds only included PCR and TMS. The airline at Toulouse airport wouldn’t let us board the flight to Tenerife via Madrid without getting permission from someone in Spain because we had antigen negatives. It took 2 hours and just before the flight closed before they got agreement from someone quite senior in the Canaries Govt to allow us to fly. I have to say that no-one at Madrid or on arrival at Tenerife inspected our certificates or indeed passports afterwards. Almost immediately afterwards the Canaries dropped antigen and lined up with the Feds.
Now under pressure from Brussels to get EU conformity the Spanish have accepted antigen again.
I realise the UK Govt should be keeping up to date with this, but its amazing how the virus must be able to understand Spanish, French and English to know exactly how its supposed to behave from week to week.
There is no situation so bad that politicians and civil servants could not make it worse.
Remember Ronald Reagen’s apposite quote. “The 10 worst words in the English language are ‘I’m from the Government and I’m here to help you'”
I just cancelled my holiday and lost a thousand pounds because of this Government
I just went on the Governments web site they still have the misleading information on there. I have just about had it with them, I have the receipt for the break I had to cancel because of them and for which I am not covered for on insurance due to the short notice. I will be writing to the home office to demand they pay for my loss and if they refuse I will proceed with a legal case. Does anyone else who have lost money because of this Governments incompetance want to join me?
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The LFT provided by the NHS is not on the approved list. No surprise there, just another cock up by the woodentops passing themselves off as a Government
Because the “testing” regime, and begging for permission, are the point.
This is what the New Normal means. Proving our innocence every day, in every way, forever.
I’ve been battling with this issue myself for the last 2 days.
I’m going to Spain on the ferry from Plymouth on the 17th July (booked before the latest restrictions). i am not vaccinated.
We are travelling from Chester to Plymouth on the Saturday and staying overnight in Taunton, before getting on the ferry on the Sunday at 5pm.
And the news has just broken that some AZ vaccines have not been approved by the EU. Nothing to do with the bureaucrats being dotfuckers due to Brexit I’m sure?
The EU’s behaviour since the start of 2020 is certainly making this Remain voter more reconciled to Brexit!
I’ve been battling with this issue myself for the last 2 days.
I’m going to Spain on the ferry from Plymouth on the 17th July (booked before the latest restrictions). I am not vaccinated and there is no time to do the PCR in time for the 48hrs deadline. (you have to have had a test within 48hrs of arriving in Spain, considering the ferry takes 20hrs that doesn’t leave a lot of time to get tested and have the results back so it is vital that the antigen test is accepted).
We are travelling from Chester to Plymouth on the Saturday and staying overnight in Taunton, before getting on the ferry on the Sunday at 5pm.
I looked at the UK Gov site and it said that the Antigen test was accepted as did the Spanish site.
However, the Britanny Ferries site said that it was not accepted in Spain.
I called them to ask why when both the Spanish and UK gov sites said they were accepted they were saying it wasn’t. A very helpful lady went to investigate and then asked if she could call me back. About 2 hrs later she called to say I was right and they have changed the advice on their website. Phew!
So I booked an antigen test in Boots in Bristol for 2pm on the Saturday which they say will take approx an hour to get the results.
About an hour later I checked the UK Gov website again and they had now changed the advice to say that the antigen test was now NOT accepted!!!
Tearing hair out at this point!
The Spanish website had not changed.
I have noticed though that on another part of the UK gov site https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/spain/entry-requirements#risk It says that the antigen test IS accepted.
Just another shit show that we have come to expect from this gov.
Making it so difficult for unvaxed to go abroad. At this point I have never had a test. I’m determined not have the Vax just so I can travel. Still, I can understand after the stress of the last few days why someone would.
I believe Greece will allow you in with proof of a positive covid test taken 2-9 months before you travel.
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/greece/entry-requirements
However, you will have to take a rapid antigen test upon arrival and quarantine for 10 days if you or someone else on the plane tests positive.
Just thought I would throw in my $0.02 in case it helps anyone:
No need to even ask the question in the headline, is there? But if you need the answer : because they’re c*nts!
To be fair, all governments are putting ridiculous unnecessary restrictions on travel. Why is travel all about rules, testing, isolation this year when it wasn’t last year? They really need to give their heads a wobble cos between the lot of them they have lost their marbles