UK requiring PCR testing?

I'm not in the UK but I googled the news and found this:

" In addition, inbound international travellers to the U.K. are required to get a PCR test by the second day of their arrival and must self-isolate until the results arrive. Those who test positive must quarantine for ten days regardless of their vaccination status."
“We’re not going to stop people travelling, I want to stress that, we’re not going to stop people travelling, but we will require anyone who enters the U.K. to take a PCR test by the end of the second day after their arrival and to self-isolate until they have a negative result,” Johnson said. “We need to slow down the spread of this variant here in the U.K., because measures at the border can only ever minimise and delay the arrival of a new variant rather than stop it all together."
 
HoneyNut said:
I'm not in the UK but I googled the news and found this:

" In addition, inbound international travellers to the U.K. are required to get a PCR test by the second day of their arrival and must self-isolate until the results arrive. Those who test positive must quarantine for ten days regardless of their vaccination status."
“We’re not going to stop people travelling, I want to stress that, we’re not going to stop people travelling, but we will require anyone who enters the U.K. to take a PCR test by the end of the second day after their arrival and to self-isolate until they have a negative result,” Johnson said. “We need to slow down the spread of this variant here in the U.K., because measures at the border can only ever minimise and delay the arrival of a new variant rather than stop it all together."
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This has been the standard instructions since the last big
shift in requirements for travellers.

I have been helping another to get the proper documents
together for a long distance journey including a transit in
Spain, it really is painful, each country has its own ideas on
how to treat travellers, their own and of course tourists.

There is one testing company here, with branches in most
cities, Dam Health, they do charge, but the PCR result will
be delivered before midnight on the same day as the test.

The second day test, here in England has to be booked and
paid for before the outward journey, for Brits, you also need
to carry proof of your vaccination status, or a negative test
up to now, but this new threat could upset things.

Before you leave to travel to the UK, 48 hrs before, you need
to complete a "Passenger Locator Form", it is all done online
and you cannot submit it till the 48 hrs.

Mike.
 
What does "PCR" mean? I know it's something to do with Covid and I assume the "C" stands for that, but trying to figure out what the "P" and "R" stand for. (I googled it but no luck.)
 
Btw, a PCR test does not indicate, which type of Covid, right?

I don't think , therefore, that it would identify if a traveler is testing positive, for the new variant or for the ongoing ones.
 
HoneyNut said:
I'm not in the UK but I googled the news and found this:

" In addition, inbound international travellers to the U.K. are required to get a PCR test by the second day of their arrival and must self-isolate until the results arrive. Those who test positive must quarantine for ten days regardless of their vaccination status."
“We’re not going to stop people travelling, I want to stress that, we’re not going to stop people travelling, but we will require anyone who enters the U.K. to take a PCR test by the end of the second day after their arrival and to self-isolate until they have a negative result,” Johnson said. “We need to slow down the spread of this variant here in the U.K., because measures at the border can only ever minimise and delay the arrival of a new variant rather than stop it all together."
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"In addition, inbound international travellers to the U.K. are required to get a PCR test by the second day of their arrival and must self-isolate until the results arrive"

Well if they are infected, that gives them 24 hours to infect everyone they come in contact with..

Here's another thought, if someone was just infected, minutes ago, and gets tested within say a couple of hours, does the test show they are infected? Doesn't it take a few days to invade enough to register on a test? Does anyone know?
 
Becky1951 said:
Doesn't it take a few days to invade enough to register on a test?
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I think that is true.

I guess in this situation, they are only testing to see if the person had it before arrival, and might be bringing in some Covid, which perhaps might be a variant that is presently less common in the country they are arriving in.?

Sorry I didn't know how to word this unclear topic, in more clear wording!:rolleyes:;):LOL:
 
In fact, of course, it was not the UK but England who took these measure.

The separate governments Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are expected to follow suit, if they haven't done so already.
 
The new variation has now arrived in Australia with two travellers from southern Africa via Doha. There must have been genomic identification involved.

First Australian cases of Omicron COVID-19 strain confirmed in Sydney travellers from southern Africa, NSW Health says​

Posted 5h ago5 hours ago, updated 2h ago

NSW Health has confirmed two returned travellers have tested positive for the new Omicron COVID-19 variant in Sydney, making them the first known cases of the strain in Australia.

The two positive cases are in isolation in the state's Special Health Accommodation.

Both people, who are fully vaccinated and were asymptomatic, arrived in Sydney from southern Africa on Saturday, November 27. They are among 14 people who arrived on Qatar Airways QR908, Doha to Sydney, about 7pm.

The remaining 12 passengers from southern Africa are undertaking 14 days of hotel quarantine, also in the Special Health Accommodation. NSW Health said about 260 passengers and air crew who were also on the flight are considered close contacts and have been directed to isolate for 14 days regardless of their test result.

On Saturday, NSW Health changed its advice for international travellers returning to Sydney as a precaution to stem the spread of the new Omicron B.1.1.529 variant. Anyone arriving in the state from the nine impacted southern African countries — South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, Eswatini, Malawi, and the Seychelles — is now required to go into hotel quarantine for 14 days. That is irrespective of their vaccine status and brings NSW in line with measures also announced by the federal government.

Travellers from other countries are now also required to immediately go to their place of residence or accommodation and isolate for 72 hours pending further health advice.

Earlier today, NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet said the pandemic wasn't over and living with COVID-19 also meant learning to live with new strains.

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Scientists said it could take weeks to fully understand the variant's mutations and whether existing vaccines and treatments would work against it.

It was a sentiment shared by NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard, who said the new variant was not well understood but the state government was working with other states and territories, and the federal government, to ascertain the risks.

"What we do know, if we look back at Delta, which was clearly a lot more infectious than its previous COVID incarnations, is that it only took three weeks for Delta to get across 53 nations," Mr Hazzard said. "We need to learn to live alongside the virus. We also need to live alongside the various strains of the virus that will come our way," Mr Perrottet said.

"It's going to be hard to ascertain just how many people are already here that may have been in those nine southern African nations in the last 14 days or so … What I would say to our community more broadly is that vaccinations really do make a difference."

There were 185 new locally-acquired COVID-19 cases in NSW in the 24 hours to 8:00pm Saturday night and no deaths. It's the second day in a row no fatalities due to the virus were recorded. There are 165 people currently in hospital with COVID-19 — 24 in intensive care and nine on ventilators.

Of those aged 16 and over, 92.4 per cent are fully vaccinated and 94.5 per cent have received at least one jab of a COVID-19 vaccine. In the 12 to 15 age group, 81.3 per cent have received one dose and 76.5 per cent are fully vaccinated.

First Australian cases of Omicron COVID-19 strain confirmed in Sydney travellers from southern Africa, NSW Health says - ABC News
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Laurie said:
In fact, of course, it was not the UK but England who took these measure.

The separate governments Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are expected to follow suit, if they haven't done so already.
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As I suggested, England is to fall in line with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on Tuesday
 

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