In a change of policy, travellers will be able to choose from a list of approved providers when booking the required tests after arriving in Scotland. Previously Scottish travellers had to book expensive NHS home PCR tests via the UK government’s booking portal.
The move will come into effect in “early” September and the Scottish government said it had been made possible by “enhanced monitoring of the performance and reliability of private testing providers to ensure public health safeguards are maintained”.
Scottish govt to allow travellers to use private Covid tests
Government
Rob Gill
27 August 2021
The Scottish government is to allow people returning from green or amber countries to use private Covid-19 tests, which should help to cut the cost of expensive PCR tests.
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