Travel testing chaos as PCRs piled high on 'overflowing and insecure' drop boxes

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Travel testing chaos as PCRs piled high on 'overflowing and insecure' drop boxes
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People say they feel ‘ripped off’ after paying £43 for a test

, after travelling for half an hour to hand in his daughter’s PCR test.The teaching assistant said he feels ‘ripped off’ after paying £43 for his daughter to complete the required PCR test after arriving from Portugal.

In response to Mr Marshall’s post, Tilly Slight posted an image of another Randox site, with the message: ‘You think that one’s bad?’Another Randox drop box is full to the brim with test samples

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