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**Hibby Bairn** · 23-10-2021 02:16 PM

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Seemingly you need pick these up in England though.

Home delivery is £43. I have two sitting here right now awaiting a test tomorrow. You then drop off in one of their boxes which for me is next to Murray field stadium.

***ardecos*** · 23-10-2021 02:17 PM

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Seemingly you need pick these up in England though.

No, mine was posted out to my house by courier. As Speedy Gonzalez said you put the completed test in a Randox drop box. I used the one at Roseburn but I think there's another couple of them in Edinburgh. The addresses are on the Randox website.

**Hibby Bairn** · 23-10-2021 02:18 PM

Originally Posted by James310

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Thanks, looks like I left it too late. It takes 4-6 working days for the kits to be delivered and we would need ours on Wednesday (Day 2?) as we arrive back on Monday. The closest pick up point was North of England.

Ordered mine Wednesday. Arrived Friday. Home delivery.

**Sir David Gray** · 23-10-2021 02:19 PM

Ah right ok that's good, I was just basing it on what another poster said this morning.

In that case you might be able to get the £3 one listed on the UK Government website that I mentioned earlier.

https://www.find-travel-test-provide...test-providers

***ardecos*** · 23-10-2021 02:39 PM

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Ah right ok that's good, I was just basing it on what another poster said this morning.

In that case you might be able to get the £3 one listed on the UK Government website that I mentioned earlier.

https://www.find-travel-test-provide...test-providers

Good luck with actually getting a PCR test posted out to you for £3. About 90%, or more, of the companies on the list are cowboys.

**~~James310~~** · 23-10-2021 03:05 PM

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Ah right ok that's good, I was just basing it on what another poster said this morning.

In that case you might be able to get the £3 one listed on the UK Government website that I mentioned earlier.

https://www.find-travel-test-provide...test-providers

All the cheap ones are click and collect, all based down in England. The £3 one you collect from Peterborough. Next cheapest one after that you need to pick up from Stockton on Tees and so on.

***Paul1642*** · 23-10-2021 03:05 PM

The holiday PCR idea is a sham designed to look like they are doing something, whist just giving money needlessly to a private company. The wife and I arrived back late Sunday night and posted our Randox tests on Monday morning. We then never received results until Thursday afternoon. Should we have been positive at the time of test we would have been out and about in the community / work for 4 days before finding out. We weren’t positive and had taken a couple of lateral flows each for peace of mind prior to the result. Waste of £86 when lateral flow would have actually been more effective!

**Sir David Gray** · 23-10-2021 03:10 PM

Originally Posted by James310

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All the cheap ones are click and collect, all based down in England. The £3 one you collect from Peterborough.

Think I'll just stay in Scotland until all this nonsense is over.

Seems like more bother than it's worth.

***Moulin Yarns*** · 23-10-2021 03:13 PM

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Think I'll just stay in Scotland until all this nonsense is over.

Seems like more bother than it's worth.

I was about to agree with you, until I realised I'm going to England in 3 weeks time

**hibsbollah** · 23-10-2021 03:23 PM

Originally Posted by ardecos

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No, mine was posted out to my house by courier. As Speedy Gonzalez said you put the completed test in a Randox drop box. I used the one at Roseburn but I think there's another couple of them in Edinburgh. The addresses are on the Randox website.

I’ve no reason to doubt you and I’m sure it can work if you go that circuitous route. But the gov.uk website is actually very clear, if you’re arriving in Scotland (or Wales or NI) you should be paying for the £68 one. I’m not willing to take the chance of being stung for two tests just because some officious prick somewhere says I haven’t followed guidance. We should be treated the same throughout the UK.

**Sir David Gray** · 23-10-2021 03:35 PM

44,985 cases and 135 deaths registered in the UK today.

***speedy_gonzales*** · 23-10-2021 03:50 PM

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I’ve no reason to doubt you and I’m sure it can work if you go that circuitous route. But the gov.uk website is actually very clear, if you’re arriving in Scotland (or Wales or NI) you should be paying for the £68 one. I’m not willing to take the chance of being stung for two tests just because some officious prick somewhere says I haven’t followed guidance. We should be treated the same throughout the UK.

The gov.scot site is also very clear. If arriving in Scotland, you can buy a home swab 2 day PCR from a private company in England.
https://www.gov.scot/publications/co...ist-countries/

**hibsbollah** · 23-10-2021 03:54 PM

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The gov.scot site is also very clear. If arriving in Scotland, you can buy a home swab 2 day PCR from a private company in England.
https://www.gov.scot/publications/co...ist-countries/

Fair enough, that’s not made clear anywhere on gov.U.K. Mrs Bollah has just laid the money down so that boat has now sailed. ****ing nonsense the lot of it.

***speedy_gonzales*** · 23-10-2021 03:59 PM

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Fair enough, that’s not made clear anywhere on gov.U.K. Mrs Bollah has just laid the money down so that boat has now sailed. ****ing nonsense the lot of it.

Needs must. I'm personally gambling by holding out for a few more days just in case things do change here on Monday.

***Stairway 2 7*** · 23-10-2021 07:57 PM

Some interesting results from this months times survey that they have been taking each month. People seem happy to do England's plan b but no further. More Interestingly it looks like protecting the economy will overtake lives for the first time in what should be the main focus. Screenshot_20211023-195754_Chrome.jpg Screenshot_20211017-105117_Chrome.jpg

Graham medley the lead of sage says on radio 2 that he thinks England probably won't need plan b. The reason is the result of booster jags being so good, that there should be a drop in hospitalisations in around a months time

***Stairway 2 7*** · 23-10-2021 07:57 PM

Found this funny

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**Sir David Gray** · 23-10-2021 08:10 PM

Breakdown of today's cases by council area;

Glasgow - 218
North Lanarkshire - 201
Fife - 184
Edinburgh - 175
South Lanarkshire - 139
Aberdeenshire - 119
West Lothian - 111
Highland - 94
East Ayrshire - 90
Falkirk - 87
Aberdeen - 82
Dundee - 73
Renfrewshire - 71
Perth and Kinross - 66
Dumfries and Galloway - 65
North Ayrshire - 56
East Lothian - 53
Argyll and Bute - 51
South Ayrshire - 49
Angus - 46
Scottish Borders - 45
East Dunbartonshire - 45
Clackmannanshire - 43
West Dunbartonshire - 42
Stirling - 38
Midlothian - 38
Moray - 35
East Renfrewshire - 31
Inverclyde - 21
Orkney - 17
Na-h Eileanan Siar - 6

**Glory Lurker** · 23-10-2021 08:13 PM

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A top doctor at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is urging people to stay away from A&E unless their “condition is life-threatening”.

https://news.stv.tv/west-central/peo...hreatening?top

Makes Yusaf's much-derided comments pale into insignificance. That doc is so going to feel the opposition fury...

**Glory Lurker** · 23-10-2021 08:18 PM

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Found this funny

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Like that! Found myself wondering today when 5G was excluded as the cause of the pandemic. You don't hear that claim anymore so it must have been addressed at some point. I'm glad it got sorted anyway.

**IberianHibernian** · 23-10-2021 08:34 PM

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Daily Scottish update:

2,403 new cases since yesterday - 8.7% positivity rate
Increase of 2 in the confirmed cases in hospital since yesterday - 896
Increase of 1 in the confirmed cases in intensive care since yesterday - 61
4,302,382 people have now received their first dose of the vaccine - 2,733 people since yesterday
3,890,477 people have now received their second dose of the vaccine - 2,069 people since yesterday
* No deaths registered since yesterday

* Due to a data issue, no new deaths data is available today. We hope to include the latest deaths in tomorrow’s update.

Almost 412 000 difference between first and second jags . Are some who got 1 jag Johnson ? Teenagers only offered one jag ? Surely vast majority of people who agreed to have jag will have agreed to have second ?
The statistics I`ve been reading here recently are pretty depressing ( deaths , hospitalisations ,..) though life seems to be almost back to pre Covid ( full stadiums etc ) . I`ve not been to Scotland or anywhere else for almost 2 years but reading comments here it seems people there more or less accept the situation / stats and don`t contemplate a return to strict measures .
Where I am in Spain , there are very few cases ( 10 people in hospitals in a province of more than a milion people and only 1 or 2 deaths per week ) but I haven`t seen even 1 person without a mask in any shop big or small or public transport ( I use buses and trains every day ) in the last 18 months .

***Stairway 2 7*** · 23-10-2021 09:37 PM

With cases in Austria rising, the chancellor is considering a lockdown for unvaccinated people 😆

https://mynorthwest.com/3199273/aust...edium=referral

***stokesmessiah*** · 23-10-2021 10:13 PM

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With cases in Austria rising, the chancellor is considering a lockdown for unvaccinated people 😆

https://mynorthwest.com/3199273/aust...edium=referral

I’m actually at the point where I don’t really see anything wrong with that now. Fair enough if there are genuine reasons, but if it’s because you are a twat….why should everyone else suffer?

**Sir David Gray** · 23-10-2021 10:49 PM

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Almost 412 000 difference between first and second jags . Are some who got 1 jag Johnson ? Teenagers only offered one jag ? Surely vast majority of people who agreed to have jag will have agreed to have second ?
The statistics I`ve been reading here recently are pretty depressing ( deaths , hospitalisations ,..) though life seems to be almost back to pre Covid ( full stadiums etc ) . I`ve not been to Scotland or anywhere else for almost 2 years but reading comments here it seems people there more or less accept the situation / stats and don`t contemplate a return to strict measures .
Where I am in Spain , there are very few cases ( 10 people in hospitals in a province of more than a milion people and only 1 or 2 deaths per week ) but I haven`t seen even 1 person without a mask in any shop big or small or public transport ( I use buses and trains every day ) in the last 18 months .

The Johnson vaccine's not being used here yet.

At the moment most people under 18 have only been offered one dose and the over 18s amount to about 4.45 million people so there's around 560,000 people in Scotland who are eligible for both vaccines but who have had one dose but not come forward for their second yet for whatever reason.

There's also around 4.78 million over 12s in Scotland so there's just under 500,000 eligible people who are currently completely unvaccinated.

I'd say you are correct in that most people do seem to be in the mindset that things are back to normal here now, minus the masks and the vaccine passports.

**Sir David Gray** · 23-10-2021 10:58 PM

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I’m actually at the point where I don’t really see anything wrong with that now. Fair enough if there are genuine reasons, but if it’s because you are a twat….why should everyone else suffer?

I'd be all for that as things stand.

***Jamesie*** · 24-10-2021 12:05 AM

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There's definitely cheaper out there.
I'm flying out the 29th, returning 4th November. Was holding off booking my 2-day PCR in case the rules changed, but that's looking unlikely just now
Flying with Jet2, they have a list of testers they've recommended, one of them delivered the self swab to your home, guaranteed to be there on your return and you can "drop" the test of at various boxes in Edinburgh, the nearest to me is at a private clinic on Roseburn Street(somewhere near the Screwfix).
The test is about £41 per person.

Also Expert Medicals at £28 for day 2 PCR - have used them twice now with no issue

***Jamesie*** · 24-10-2021 12:05 AM

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Do you have the name or website please? £41 each would be a saving of over £100.

Expert Medicals are £28 for the day 2 PCR.

**hibsbollah** · 24-10-2021 07:42 AM

There’s a plan B after all.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-b-covid-rules

***Stairway 2 7*** · 24-10-2021 08:36 AM

Anyone else have reports of vaccines passports being box ticking exercise.

I was at the corn exchange seeing the dmas on Tuesday boy barely looked down at my passport.

On Friday I boy in my 5 aside chat showed he was inside seeing the Fontaines at the same venue. He's unvaccinated said he had a screenshot that the time wasn't moving on, but they hardly looked. The jambo prick got asked for his passport at tynie yesterday but told the steward he was exempt, so got in

***Moulin Yarns*** · 24-10-2021 08:40 AM

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With cases in Austria rising, the chancellor is considering a lockdown for unvaccinated people 😆

https://mynorthwest.com/3199273/aust...edium=referral

Is that not exactly what is happening in France, and possibly other countries. And it is stronger than what we have.