Cost of Test to Release SIR – Covid-19 Day 2 and Day 8 PCR tests and the Test to Release scheme on Day 5, for international arrivals, seem like a money-making scheme penalising those trying to get back to work. I received an email informing me that, because my Day 8 falls on the Bank Holiday this weekend, I must spend longer in quarantine or self-isolation, as the results will be delayed. Imagine my surprise when, at the end of the email telling me that I had been affected, I was offered a 30 per cent reduction on the Day 5 Test to Release, by which I could be released from isolation earlier, as an alternative to spending longer in quarantine.