Day 2 Lateral flow

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List has been released- who to book with? Anyone used testing for all?

www.find-travel-test-provider.service.gov.uk/providers#list-of-test-providers

@EileenGC I was very tempted to do this. Just invent a code as clearly there is no central database that can be tapped into given the v short notice that companies have to offer products and services. But like a massive wuss, I didn't quite have the balls.

smogsville can confirm you are correct.

Yes, i've been thinking that, who actually checks that you do the day 2 test and that you havent made up or reused a code?

No one. Also there aren't only 26 providers there are more like 300 but they tried to upload them all yesterday and the site broke. You're better off using Google than that list as every man and his dog will be trying to book from those suppliers.

And anything under £20 on that list is likely to be a bait and switch because it's difficult to cover costs lower than that.

I have tried ten so far from the gov up list and none can send any out. One company Projectscreen has just taken my money but doesn’t send out a code so can’t be used for the PL forms (yet is listed as a return to uk last flow test provider).

Great! So glad the system is working so well! Not in the least bit surprised! I've found a company that say they can do them cheaply near me if we go in person, but they dont actually say where. So have emailed them. Am awaiting a reply.....

We're on tube on way home from Paris.

At Gare du nord a nice Eurostar lady glanced at my PLF briefly. Didn't cross ref with any documents so it could have been anyone's.

At no point during the journey did anyone else ask for it including border control. They're only interested in passports.

I could have written ABC123456 for the package reference and saved myself nearly £80 for four tests quite frankly.

Would be interested to hear how others get on, if it's different at airports etc.

@smogsville

We're on tube on way home from Paris.

At Gare du nord a nice Eurostar lady glanced at my PLF briefly. Didn't cross ref with any documents so it could have been anyone's.

At no point during the journey did anyone else ask for it including border control. They're only interested in passports.

I could have written ABC123456 for the package reference and saved myself nearly £80 for four tests quite frankly.

Would be interested to hear how others get on, if it's different at airports etc.

Flew back from Barcelona today. Easyjet woman only wanted to see we both had the plf (that’s been my experience for the flights I’ve had this year )

Randox dispatched my tests on Fridays and got delivered yesteday to my in laws and we’ll collect them tomorrow. So pretty quick

We booked them through testing for all btw.
In sunny Canary Islands now.

In my experience the airline checks that you have done all the paperwork so copies of covid tests (for unvaccinated travellers or travel that was before the change this month) and PLF for all adult passengers. At the UK border the border officer can access the PLF from the passport number and they check at this point. I think if you don't have a valid code (I know some people have been reusing codes, but I mean a made up one rather than a reused one) it would be flagged at this point. As for checking whether the test had been done, this check would happen behind the scenes linked to your passport number and PLF code. So just because you weren't contacted to check whether you had done the test or not doesn't mean that no one did check.

That's how the system is supposed to work in theory anyway. Personally I think we should be following the lead of most of Europe and not have any post-flight testing for double vaccinated travellers.

@BlackLambAndGreyFalcon thanks for the update. Sounds like checks on planes are a bit more rigorous than for ES. Or perhaps it just depends on the border official as to what they ask for. I am counting myself lucky that I have no more likely travel for work or pleasure until eurotunnel to France next summer.

Does anyone know how you actually go about uploading the result? Tomorrow will be out day two.

Who did you get it from? I need to do randox tomorrow. Seems like it’s via a. App

I've just done my Randox one. It's via the app, and it's a nasal swab only. You need to scan your passport and register on the app, which is a bit of a faff. If I had a quid every time I've had to enter my passport details into an app for this four day trip, it would have covered the cost of the tests.

I had to enter my test booking reference on it but I very much doubt anyone will ever look at it. DD will do her one later. Email confirmation of the result came through literally seconds later.

£25 travel tax.

In terms of airport checks, at Heathrow on Sunday there were none at all.

I was expecting my passport to be flagged at the automatic gates in T5, as I hadn't managed to complete the Passenger Locator Form with the evidence of my two jabs. When I tried to upload the QR code for my second jab the form wouldn't take it, saying that it was a first jab QR. (Which it wasn't)
So I completed the form by ticking the declaration that I was double-jabbed, and that I understood that I would have to prove this on arrival.

In Spain they visually checked the PLF and my vaccine pass, but nothing was scanned. Departure was complicated further by the fact that the Iberia check-in staff could not believe that a 16 year old DS with me didn't need a PCR test through not having a double jab. We were almost denied boarding because of this - and it just about gave me heart failure for the 20 minutes while she looked for evidence that I was correct. (Stoopid UK rules)

So I sailed through LHR without anyone in the UK checking that my declaration that I have been double jabbed was correct, even though I should have been stopped and my documentation checked. Its the worst of both worlds: costly but totally ineffectual. Contrast that with arriving in Spain - both QR codes scanned, evidence of DS's PCR physically checked, and random temperature checks. Reassuring: I don't mind jumping through hoops if there is a clear purpose to them and my time isn't wasted.
Anyone entering the UK at the end of half term can probably bring back as much covid as they like - although it's a lot harder to find any in Spain.

@smogsville interesting! It wouldn't take my vaxx code either.
Great: glitched system.

It's all totally performative and none of it would actually stop anyone coming into the country with covid.

@Lemonsole you've just reminded me that I should have had to prove my vacc status too as I couldn't get my QR code to scan into the PLF.

Performative - that's precisely the right word.

Will set aside some time to have a go at doing our tests later on via the app...

Me again (!), just noticed someone saying you need to scan passport in order to upload result which we won't be able to do as they're at our house and we're at my parents' with children for half term now.

But I've just done my test from Testing For All and it comes with this little photo card (ID scribbled on by me) suggesting you can just pop the test cassette into the rectangle at the bottom, take a pic and upload to their website.

Does anyone know if this is likely to be sufficient?

Right apologies for multiple messages I have now done it via the Testing for All app. Luckily just passport number which we had on our ES tickets was required rather than a scan.

Hi, could anyone advise please on the following - fully vaccinated parent coming back from Spain, three un jabbed kids 17, 13 and 10 yo, do they all need antigen day 2 test once back to the uk or only parent has to by one?

anyone over the age of 5 needs the day 2 one I believe, so everyone in your case.

@Hiheyho yes you all need tests.

Update for anyone else - the testing for all app insists that you only use one email
address to upload each result.

I rang them up as my DCs are 6 and 10 and the sad sounding nice lady on the phone said that DH and I should just use a work email address for each of the DCs to bypass this.

We have now all done ours although not within the 30 min window after test has been taken so hoping we don't get any comeback from this or I may kill someone.

@Lemonsole

In terms of airport checks, at Heathrow on Sunday there were none at all.

I was expecting my passport to be flagged at the automatic gates in T5, as I hadn't managed to complete the Passenger Locator Form with the evidence of my two jabs. When I tried to upload the QR code for my second jab the form wouldn't take it, saying that it was a first jab QR. (Which it wasn't)
So I completed the form by ticking the declaration that I was double-jabbed, and that I understood that I would have to prove this on arrival.

In Spain they visually checked the PLF and my vaccine pass, but nothing was scanned. Departure was complicated further by the fact that the Iberia check-in staff could not believe that a 16 year old DS with me didn't need a PCR test through not having a double jab. We were almost denied boarding because of this - and it just about gave me heart failure for the 20 minutes while she looked for evidence that I was correct. (Stoopid UK rules)

So I sailed through LHR without anyone in the UK checking that my declaration that I have been double jabbed was correct, even though I should have been stopped and my documentation checked. Its the worst of both worlds: costly but totally ineffectual. Contrast that with arriving in Spain - both QR codes scanned, evidence of DS's PCR physically checked, and random temperature checks. Reassuring: I don't mind jumping through hoops if there is a clear purpose to them and my time isn't wasted.
Anyone entering the UK at the end of half term can probably bring back as much covid as they like - although it's a lot harder to find any in Spain.

Why wouldn't you ds need a pcr test?

I thought you have to be over 10 to need a day two test as been looking at the gov website? It seems to suggest our 10 year old is fine without as 10 and younger don’t need one?