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‘Traffic Light’ System Is Gone, but PCR Tests Will Remain for Now

by Michael Curzon
18 September 2021 11:29 AM

Brits – vaccinated or otherwise – returning from their holidays abroad will still be forced to fork out for expensive PCR tests at least until the end of October, the Department for Transport has announced, despite the scrapping of the ‘traffic light’ travel system. The Telegraph has the story.

The Department for Transport warned that expensive PCR tests will still be required for fully jabbed travellers returning from holiday until the end of next month, and may not be removed before the back end of the half-term week, which starts on October 25th.

Even if the Government scraps them in time, fully vaccinated travellers will still face lateral flow or rapid antigen tests, which the Telegraph found on Friday being sold by Government-approved private providers for as much as £150.

Airline and airport chiefs said the “unnecessary” continued testing of jabbed holidaymakers and business travellers made travel less affordable and put the U.K. at a disadvantage to Europe.

It came as the Government removed the traffic light system by merging its Green and Amber Lists of countries, which means unvaccinated travellers will have to quarantine on return from any foreign country. Eight ‘winter sun’ countries including Egypt, Kenya and Turkey will come off the red list.

Johan Lundgren, the Chief Executive of easyJet, said: “Since July 1st, there has been no testing at all for vaccinated travellers within the rest of Europe, and this is why the U.K. will continue to fall further behind the rest of Europe if this remains.”

John Holland-Kaye, the Chief Executive of Heathrow Airport, said: “The decision to require fully vaccinated passengers to take more costly private lateral flow tests is an unnecessary barrier to travel, which keeps the U.K. out of step with the rest of the EU.” …

The Department for Transport told industry chiefs it could scrap PCR tests for the fully jabbed by October 23, but officially it said it aimed “to have it in place for when people return from half-term breaks”.

A Telegraph analysis of lateral flow/antigen tests on the Gov.uk website found the most expensive to be £150, offered by The Private GP Clinic in Sevenoaks, Kent, which compared with the cheapest at £14.99 offered by O Covid Clear.

Worth reading in full.

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Kung Flu Lou
Kung Flu Lou
3 years ago

If we don’t fight back now, and I mean fight, it’s over.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-victoria-update-large-anti-lockdown-protest-in-melbourne/f3c51ad2-5fde-4d15-a4d9-5bf6ece1d0c3

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Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
3 years ago
Reply to  Kung Flu Lou

The Ozzys have an epidemic of the Tyrant Variant..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ8SfvgILgQ&t=4s

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago
Reply to  Kung Flu Lou

Or not.

https://tomluongo.me/2021/09/10/quietly-say-no-to-joe-bidens-call-for-civil-war/

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Smelly Melly
Smelly Melly
3 years ago

I’m not vaccinated and neither is anybody who’s been double jabbed.

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isobar
isobar
3 years ago

Yet more coercion and discrimination of the ‘non-jabbed!

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago

Let’s just take a moment to digest this.

Thanks to… I mean despite the stunning success of Our Vaccines, the UK has one of the highest “case” rates in the world for the coof. So why is there any need at all to get tested when flying in from a country with fewer “cases”?

Why the demand to distinguish between “vaccinated” travellers, and pureblood humans? The CDC and even PHE have fessed up that “vaccination” doesn’t stop you catching or spreading the coofs.

What’s the justification for charging travellers (from lower coof regions) for a test that the State is mandating? But you can rock up to any test centre within the UK and get tested free of charge, just for fun.

Everything about this is an affront to science, reason and logic. It almost seems like that’s the point.

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

“why is there any need at all to get tested when flying in from a country with fewer “cases”?”

Because there’s money to be made out of testing, and also it makes travelling much more difficult. It is odd, isn’t it, that the free tests are not valid for travel. Only those you have to pay for. Let’s have a look at one of these testing cowboy companies:

https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.collinsongroup.com?stars=1

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cubby
cubby
3 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

I presume the down-ticker works in a PCR test centre

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Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
3 years ago

It costs me a few quid in tests and I’m forced to quarantine my healthy self for a few days on return – but that is nothing to the dangers and unknown dangers the vaccinated have been coerced into…

I’ll take the punishment over the death shot all day long!

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Kung Flu Lou
Kung Flu Lou
3 years ago
Reply to  Major Panic in the jabby jabbys

How long before ‘vaccinated’ travel only.

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Oscarone
Oscarone
3 years ago
Reply to  Kung Flu Lou

A very good question. Grant Shapps said this a month ago Vaccines to be required for open travel ‘for evermore’, says Shapps | Coronavirus | The Guardian And the EU is considering removing the negative test component from its Green Pass. Even though it’s pretty difficult to travel now, it might be much tougher in the future. Or are they just trying to put the frighteners on us.

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago
Reply to  Oscarone

Given that the jabbed are easily infected and pass on the infection, I don’t see how this kind of discrimination can stand up to legal scrutiny.

It will take time no doubt as all legal procedures do, but it’s a no brainer.

And if the courts don’t strike this down, then that is the end of any kind of civilised society and pretty much anything goes from that point on.

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

The Government/NHS/SAGE/pharmaceutical companies claim the ‘jabbed’ are less likely to catch ‘Covid’ or to spread it.
The Government control the courts, they will not be doing anything the Government doesn’t want them to.

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mariathena
mariathena
3 years ago
Reply to  Oscarone

In Greece where oppression of the unvaccinated is much worse than the UK , you cannot even use a negative test to enter restaurants , bars or football matches . Nowhere else in Europe is this so restrictive .They are doing everything to bend down the unvaccinated, even people with medical exemptions are targeted .

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago

Given there is no evidence that these jabs stop infection or infecriousness, then any difference in treatment between jabbed and unjabbed is discrimination.

This should be challenged in court. At the very least we will get confirmation of whether our legal system is as broken as our political system.

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Kung Flu Lou
Kung Flu Lou
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

..and educational, medical, police..

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cubby
cubby
3 years ago

Do you notice how “fully vaccinated” are the people being used to show how ridiculous the system is? They have totally marginalised or eradicated normal people – the unvaccinated – from the discussion. We don’t get a mention, we are “Untermenschen”!

I suggest we unvaccinated start calling ourselves “the Jews”. Maybe even start wearing a yellow star when out and about. The average German (Vaccinee) didn’t know that the Jews were being marginalised in 1932. They won’t even notice, or even whisper “they probably deserved it” when we’re loaded into cattle trucks and shipped off for re-education or worse. If we take a radical stand like this it might get a few people to think about what they’re doing.

Please don’t think I am in any way trying to downplay the holocaust. I fear we might be heading for the ultimate holocaust.

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grob1234
grob1234
3 years ago

Doesn’t apply if you’re travelling in for London fashion week.

All exempt.

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I am Spartacas
I am Spartacas
3 years ago

‘Traffic Light’ System Is Gone, but PCR Tests Will Remain for Now

Unless you happen to be a part of the privilege elite then tests do not apply to you … photographers, models, fashion writers all exempt from tests when arriving in Britain for London Fashion Week – very clever these modern viruses …. they can differentiate betwen us plebs and the new globalist aristocracy …

Screenshot 2021-09-18 at 14-52-28 Right Said Fred ( TheFreds) Twitter.png
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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago

“with the cheapest at £14.99 offered by O’Covid Clear.”

Sounds like a pikey firm! Prepare to part with your money and never hear from them again.

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Hester
Hester
3 years ago
  1. Government admits vaccination does not prevent the virus being caught, it also does not prevent transmission.
  2. Those travellers returning from for example an Amber country the vaccinated can board the plane without a test showing their covid status, the unvaccinated must take a test to prove they do not have it, therefore the vaccinated are potentially spreading the virus on the plane.
  3. On return to the Uk the unvaccinated are made to isolate for a minimum of 10 days, they cannot shop for food, they cannot exercise, they must test themselves at their own costs on day 2 and day 8
  4. The Vaccinated on returning home, are not required to isolate but must perform a day 2 test. So again the vaccinated who can be transmitting the virus can move about freely.
  5. The unvaccinated are visited at night by men in high viz jackets whopurport to be from the Government, they wear NHS high viz jackets, they step onto private property and question the unvaccinated, they then write up notes on them which the unvaccinated are not allowed to see, and they then stay on the drive fo the unvaccinated watching them in their homes for a minimum of 10 minutes.
  6. Number 5 can be repeated frequently throughout the day and every day until the unvaccinated is released by the return of the final day 8 test which can take up to 3 days.

These are facts, this is blatant discrimination not aimed at protecting from the spread of the virus, as the vaccinated can still transmit it, so the only reason that this treatment is being metred out by the Government is to harass and intimidate the unvaccinated into taking the vaccine. In the case of females to have a man turn up on your doorstep in the dark at the place that is supposed to be where you are secure, and then to have the same man sit on your drive for 10 minutes watching you is a violation.
This is my lived experience. I have complained to NHS track and trace, the number to call they say is 119, nobody answers at 8pm, and when the complaint form is entered they respond that they have 25 days in which to address my complaint.
This is Britain, where a law abiding tax paying female is being stalked and terrorised in her own home by the Government, and they can do it.

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Sambagirl
Sambagirl
3 years ago
Reply to  Hester

This sounds an awful experience! Maybe write to your MP- there must be someone out there who can address your complaint – one suspects that it’s doubtful you’ll get any response from NHS.
They once said ‘Follow the Science’ – the points you make above illustrate what a load of bo**ocks it is. There is no logic or ‘science’ involved or they would have the same rule for all. Their tunnel vision of a plan out of all of this isn’t working as they’d like. They can’t admit to anything that deviates from their warped agenda, either because of losing face or else because of some bigger agenda that we can only guess at. They are greedy and corrupt.

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