on covid test providers who ve been accused of taking advantage of holidaymakers travelling abroad. more than 80 companies listed on the government website are to be warned over misleading prices. a further 57 firms are being removed from the website because they either don t provide the relevant tests or they no longer even exist. 0ur transport correspondent caroline davies has the details. if you travel, you test. and you pay for those tests. the government s own website has a list of providers, but booking through them isn t to guarantee things will go smoothly as barbara lowe found out coming from her holiday in portugal injune. we didn t get any test results at all. you couldn t get through to them on the phone, you couldn t contact them via the website. well, to be honest, i think it s quite farcical. i m annoyed, and i m upset that i ve lost my money and i haven t got what i paid for, basically.
but complaints about some operators have been going on for almost the same amount of time. it s meant that there have been some questions about why the government is only taking action now. we are really talking about the most basic of checks we are talking about, does the company exist? does the price it says it s going to sell the test at, does that exist? there are lots of other problems behind us, so good news that the government is taking action, but my goodness, it really has taken a long time. the government has said it will do regular spot checks to ensure that prices are accurate and providers are legitimate. but the summer season has nearly come to an end, and for some testing has already left a nasty aftertaste. caroline davies, bbc news. now on bbc news: the travel show. this is the mighty mississippi. the economic backbone of early america, running north to south for more than 2000 miles, carrying the people and cargo that helped to turn this country from a fledgling
doses of a covid vaccine. dozens of companies that sell covid pcr travel tests are to be removed from the government s list of approved providers. the firms either no longer exist or don t provide all the tests required by holiday makers. 0ur transport correspondent caroline davies can explain more. these are the tests you have when you come back from a foreign country to the uk. you need to have either one or two tests. depending on which country you are travelling from and whether you are vaccinated or not. the government lists these providers on their website with the cheapest at the top down to the most expensive. it has come under criticism for not keeping a close enough eye as to what is going on. some say a particular price on the website, when you go to them they are more expensive or not available at all. some people have said they have paid for tests and not received results or have received them very late. even some test providers have complained there are cowboys operating
caroline davies, bbc news. the latest government coronavirus figures show there were 31,914 new infections recorded in the latest 24 hour period, which means on average there were 32,981 new cases per day, in the last week. the most recent figures show there were almost 6,500 people in hospital with the virus on thursday. a0 deaths were recorded in the past 2a hours, with an average of 100 deaths a day in the past week. 0n vaccinations, 87.7% of adults in the uk have now had theirfirst jab and 76.9% have had two. the government says it s met its target of offering all 16 and 17 year olds in england a single dose of the covid jab. more than a million young people became eligible earlier this month and the latest figures suggest around 360,000 have taken up the offer. a new nhs video has been launched highlighting the effects of long covid in a bid to drive up vaccination rates amongst teenagers. here s our medical
regular spot checks to ensure that prices are accurate and providers are legitimate. but the summer season has nearly come to an end, and for some, testing has already left a nasty aftertaste. caroline davies, bbc news. the latest government coronavirus figures show there were 31,914 new infections recorded in the latest 24 hour period, which means on average there were 32,981 new cases per day, in the last week. the most recent figures show there were almost 6,500 people in hospital with the virus on thursday. a0 deaths were recorded in the past 2a hours, with an average of 100 deaths a day in the past week. 0n vaccinations, 87.7% of adults in the uk have now had theirfirstjab, and 76.9% have had two. the government says it s met its target of offering all 16 and 17 year olds in england a single dose of the covid jab. more than a million young people became eligible earlier this month