A new comparison website that lets holidaymakers find the cheapest coronavirus travel tests is to be launched within days.
The gov.uk website will reportedly work in a similar way to comparison sites such as Go Compare and Compare the Market, which allow customers to shop around for the best insurance prices.
It will also allow people to leave reviews as a warning to other Brits about potential bad service from coronavirus test companies.
Some testing firms are reported to have profiteering off holiday-starved Brits by charging up to £300 per PCV test.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps is poised to launch the new website in the next few days, reports The Telegraph.
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It comes as foreign holidays have been given the go-ahead from May 17, with destinations being ranked through a new “traffic light” system.
For “green” countries, you need to take a pre-departure test before you return to England, as well as a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test on or before day two of your arrival back home.
Destinations included in this category are Portugal, Gibraltar, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Brunei, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, plus several small remote islands that are British Overseas Territories.
However, entry to Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Brunei and the Faroe Islands is severely restricted.
With “amber” destinations, mostly Europe and the USA, you need to take three tests - one pre-departure, and then PCR tests on day two and day eight after arriving home.
You’re then required to self-isolate for 10 days after arrival although you can choose to pay for a fourth test on day five, and if it comes back negative they can leave quarantine early.
People travelling to “red countries” must quarantine for 10 days in a hotel at £1,750 a head.
They must also take three tests - the same as the amber group - and cannot pay for a separate test to get out of quarantine early.
