Border officials have said that around 100 fake Covid test certificates are found every day at the U.K. border because the documents are “very easy” to forge. Fakes are usually only identified due to spelling errors. The Telegraph has the story.
Around 100 fake Covid test certificates are being discovered at the border every day, in what experts have branded a “very leaky” system, it has emerged.
The fake documents claiming a traveller has a recent negative test result are “very easy” to forge, MPs have been told, and there is no way to tell how many more are being missed…
[Lucy] Moreton [Professional Officer for the Immigration Services Union] told the All Party Parliamentary Group on Coronavirus that around 20,000 people are coming into the country each day, the majority of whom are hauliers.To enter England people must provide proof of a negative test taken in the three days before departure – which can be shown to border agents as a printed document or through an email or text message.
Asked how border agents are able to verify proof of a negative test, Ms Moreton told MPs: “We’re not, is the simple answer, it’s predominantly taken on trust.
“We do get 100 or more a day of fake Covid certificates, that we catch.”
She added they usually identify them due to spelling errors.
But many certificates are in a foreign language which could make spelling mistakes trickier to spot, she added.
“Otherwise they are taken at face value,” she said.
Ms Moreton also said there is “little to no” evidence on how well people are adhering to quarantine rules. Arrivals from countries on the Government’s “red list” (to which India was recently added) must isolate for 10 days at a Government-approved hotel – and pay £1,750 for the privilege. The Government has attempted to crack down on rule-breakers by paying the private firm Mitie up to £90 million to carry out 10,000 home visits every day.
The Telegraph’s report is worth reading in full.
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Good luck to ’em! The forgers that is.
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My only concern is that the forgeries need to be better.
So they identify 100 of the most amateurish slapdash forgeries simply because of spelling mistakes. Who knows how many use more professional forgers and how would border staff validate one from Bulgaria (Cyrilic script) or in Greek ?
The report says a majority of the 20,000 daily arrivals are hauliers, does Mities contract extend to checking up on those whose ‘home’ is an overnight truckstop at a motorway service station ?
Total unthought out shitshow as per usual.
Who would have thought!
Who would have thought…faking covid results in a NHS hospital?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IRJDAK4HKE
3, 2… 1 and its gone from YouTube!
Wow, they both know their stuff.
Still up at 19.00hrs.
And still 03.30, 6.4k views
Here we go. A justification for more stringent control: implants, internment…
They missed the obvious point that all these nasty, dirty foreigners coming in with their fake certificates have caused a massive spike in cases and deaths. oh wait…
Probably just added to all the bodies in the streets and overwhelmed hospitals, after that huge protest march about three weeks ago.
… and despite this cases and deaths are going down as we’re coming out of the seasonal respiratory cycle. It’s all about control… that should be clear by now…
wow, so thorough in weeding out fake certificates but not yet able to figure out that this health crisis is a FRAUD….. funny world we live in
A friend wants to know where to get one and the going rate .
Yeah my friend too
ditto
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Presumably there is a template online where you can get the worthless piece of paper?
Obvs asking for a friend
Ha ha. How inventive!!
Get one drafted up in Welsh or Gaelic and then cry foul
works for the celts every time