Covid and travel discussion

Does anyone know this - if you arrive back, say the day before a rule change that says you don’t have to quarantine anymore, do you still have to remain in quarantine regardless? I ask because if not then I can change return date to after rule change but would rather not unless I have to.
thanks
 
The wife and I are both fully vaccinated and are going to Greece next Friday. We have to download the NHS app to get our covid passports, but despite the app having the phones permission to take pictures the app on the mobile phone still wont take the required pictures or video to fully verify who we are. All the NHS App permissions are enabled. The mobiles are both the Huawei , I am wondering if there is a known problem with this make ? any suggestions to resolve the problem would be most welcome. Cheers CLB
 
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bellsouth said:
Does anyone know this - if you arrive back, say the day before a rule change that says you don’t have to quarantine anymore, do you still have to remain in quarantine regardless? I ask because if not then I can change return date to after rule change but would rather not unless I have to.
thanks
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It’s an arbitrary cut off date. Anything before that and you have to quarantine.
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
The wife and I are both fully vaccinated and are going to Greece next Friday. We have to download the NHS app to get our covid passports, but despite the app having the phones permission to take pictures the app on the mobile phone still wont take the required pictures or video to fully verify who we are. All the NHS App permissions are enabled. The mobiles are both the Huawei , I am wondering if there is a known problem with this make ? any suggestions to resolve the problem would be most welcome. Cheers CLB
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Search online with exact model of the phone and the issue, there might be a known problem with an identified solution.
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
The wife and I are both fully vaccinated and are going to Greece next Friday. We have to download the NHS app to get our covid passports, but despite the app having the phones permission to take pictures the app on the mobile phone still wont take the required pictures or video to fully verify who we are. All the NHS App permissions are enabled. The mobiles are both the Huawei , I am wondering if there is a known problem with this make ? any suggestions to resolve the problem would be most welcome. Cheers CLB
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I have a a Huawei too, couldn't get past the photo stage. I applied for the letter instead.
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
The wife and I are both fully vaccinated and are going to Greece next Friday. We have to download the NHS app to get our covid passports, but despite the app having the phones permission to take pictures the app on the mobile phone still wont take the required pictures or video to fully verify who we are. All the NHS App permissions are enabled. The mobiles are both the Huawei , I am wondering if there is a known problem with this make ? any suggestions to resolve the problem would be most welcome. Cheers CLB
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The app has an option to download a PDF copy or receive an email with the pass in. Can’t you do this and then you can access it separately via email or get a screenshot on a PC and load the image back on your phone. I know it’s a bit of a faff but I assume you want some kind of backup stored on your phone?
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
The wife and I are both fully vaccinated and are going to Greece next Friday. We have to download the NHS app to get our covid passports, but despite the app having the phones permission to take pictures the app on the mobile phone still wont take the required pictures or video to fully verify who we are. All the NHS App permissions are enabled. The mobiles are both the Huawei , I am wondering if there is a known problem with this make ? any suggestions to resolve the problem would be most welcome. Cheers CLB
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Try taking the photos required beforehand mate (so they're in your gallery) and upload from there before you open the app.
 
Just got back from Lanzarote the other day. If you do your homework beforehand its not too bad getting through the airports. What I will say though is, if you can print your forms off as well as having them on your phone you will sail through quickly. At Lanzarote on the way back they didn't want to touch your phones for obvious reasons and some people were there for ages looking for QR codes etc. So apart from Boarding passes try to print everything off

Me and my wife and 2 kids aged 6 and 9 went. Me and the misses were double vaccinated . Don't forget to book your day 2 PCR test on the way book

Obviously the below is for the Amber countries. I know I'm teaching people how to suck eggs but thought it might help in what we experienced

Manchester airport

- Went with Ryan Air - took about 20 mins to check in our cases. Self service luggage machines. Scan boarding pass, weigh cases it gives you a tag for the bag . Just give them to woman on desk and they chuck them straight through and quick check of passports.
- 20 mins waiting to get to security . As per usual electronics and bags on tray
- All done in record time. (albeit airport was quiet)
- Usual at the gate itself. Boarding passes and Passport check

Arrival in Lanzarote

- Quickly through border control. Just a check of passports
- Got luggage
- Random spot checks in checking Spanish Health form. Temp check on both kids

Whilst in Lanzarote

- Me and Wife got the Antingen within 72 hours of leaving. Walked into local clinic 20 euro's each . just the swab up the nose. We got a barcode on a piece of paper with our passport numbers. We could then check our results 2 hours later online and got the hotel to print off the results as well as our passenger locator forms.(If printed off, easier to navigate through airport)
- Approx 45 min wait in checking in. Slow moving with the staff checking phones.
-If you have documents printed you will sail through.
-Once through usual security check

Arriving Manchester

-As per normal except at border control they'll check passenger locator forms as well as passports

Forms needed;

Leaving

Passports
Boarding passes (done online, use QR code on phone)
Spanish Health form (Print off if you can)
Proof of Vaccination via app (Print off if you can)

Coming back home

Passports
Boarding passes
Proof of negative antingen test (Print off if you can)
Passenger locator form (Print off if you can)

We booked our 'day 2 PCR Test' to be delivered to our address . £200 in total for the 4 of us which is probably as cheap as you'll get it. Company called Biograd we got ours from

Hope this helps some people
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
The wife and I are both fully vaccinated and are going to Greece next Friday. We have to download the NHS app to get our covid passports, but despite the app having the phones permission to take pictures the app on the mobile phone still wont take the required pictures or video to fully verify who we are. All the NHS App permissions are enabled. The mobiles are both the Huawei , I am wondering if there is a known problem with this make ? any suggestions to resolve the problem would be most welcome. Cheers CLB
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I have a Hauwei phone. As does the missus. No problem with the app. Little consolation, I know.
 
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