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Nearly 150,000 sign ‘free testing for travel’ petition

Government
Will Payne
17 December 2021

Nearly 150,000 people have signed a petition to make PCR and lateral flow tests free of charge for fully vaccinated travellers.

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The petition, which, at the time of writing, had 147,601 supporters, has been shared on change.org 

Once it reaches 150,000 signatures, it will become one of the top signed petitions on the website. 

Organised by user "S M Y" and aimed at the UK parliament and the prime minister, the description said: "Dear Boris Johnson... I am disgusted with how expensive it is for my family to go abroad for the first time in over two years since this pandemic started.

"You have made [testing] mandatory, even for fully vaccinated travellers, yet you are forcing us to pay expensive private companies.