Private clinics are typically more expensive than airline tests, which are available from as little as £20
19 May 2021 • 6:00am
Buying holiday Covid tests from private clinics online can cost travellers up to 10 times more than buying through an airline.
As the rules around international travel ease, many countries still require British holidaymakers to submit a negative Covid test on arrival. Meanwhile, travellers looking to return home face paying privately for multiple tests, the costs of which can quickly add up.
Buying through an airline offering discounted tests could save travellers hundreds of pounds, with deals starting from £20 compared to up to £200 from private clinics.
Keep strict watch on prices of essential commodities in states: Piyush Goyal
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Last Updated: May 19, 2021, 08:42 PM IST
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Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday directed his officials to keep a strict watch on prices of essential commodities in states. Goyal, who reviewed the provisions of the Essential Commodities (EC) Act for keeping the prices of essential commodities in check, asked state governments to enforce this law to curb hoarding.
Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday directed his officials to keep a strict watch on prices of essential commodities in states. Goyal, who reviewed the provisions of the Essential Commodities (EC) Act for keeping the prices of essential commodities in check, asked state governments to enforce this law to curb hoarding.
Holidaymakers have been told they should not travel to amber list countries for leisure
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I am desperately in need of a holiday and I’ve been dreaming of going abroad. My husband knows it and very kindly surprised me with two tickets to Malaga, flying in mid-July. We go to Spain every summer and we were very upset when we chose not to risk it last year because we were scared of catching coronavirus.
We are both over 60 and have had two jabs so we aren’t as worried about the pandemic now. But the idea of travelling still makes me nervous. Spain is not on the green list and we would have to self-isolate when we get back. I would find it very difficult to be trapped in my home for such a long time, especially when we have only just been given the freedom to spend time with our children and grandchildren. We would also have to take a couple of PCR tests and they look uncomfortable, not to mention expensive.
An online lending platform called Kabbage sent 378 pandemic loans worth $7 million to fake companies (mostly farms) with names like “Deely Nuts” and “Beefy King.” The shoreline communities of Ocean County, New Jersey, are a summertime getaway for throngs of urbanites, lined with vacation homes and ice cream parlors. Not exactly pastoral which is odd, considering dozens of Paycheck Protection Program loans to supposed farms that flowed into the beach towns last year. As the first round of the federal government’s relief program for small businesses wound down last summer, “Ritter Wheat Club” and “Deely Nuts,” ostensibly a wheat farm and a tree nut farm, each got $20,833, the maximum amount available for sole proprietorships. “Tomato Cramber,” up the coast in Brielle, got $12,739, while “Seaweed Bleiman” in Manahawkin got $19,957.
BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE PROJECT:
The REACH OUT project aims to provide an improved response regarding gender based violence perpetrated against women, girls, men and boys migrants, including refugees. This European project is implemented jointly by MdM-Belgium (Antwerp), MdM Germany (Munich), MdM Netherlands (Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Nijmegen) and the Serbian Red Cross of Sid (Sid). It is implemented with the support of the European Commission s Directorate-General for Justice and Consumer Affairs, through the Rights, Equality and Citizenship funds.
This project aims to prevent gender-based violence among these particularly marginalised populations, to identify survivors and people at risk of GBV, in order to provide them with services meeting their needs and to complement existing services through dynamic collaboration between stakeholders. The aim is therefore to identify involved actors, to strengthen practices and protocols through training and exchanges of experie