New US rules for international travellers create unwelcome Christmas surprise
Assuming people need to have their tests fully completed at least four hours before they depart – to allow them sufficient time to make their way through the airport and through US immigration – they will need to have the tests carried out either on Christmas Day or early on the morning of December 26th.
The RocDoc testing centre at Dublin Airport is normally open between the hours of 8am and 7pm, but is closed on Christmas Day. It is not yet taking bookings for December 26th. The Randox testing centre, meanwhile, has normal opening hours from 2am until 11pm, but is closed on Christmas Day and the earliest available slot it has for St Stephen’s Day for a rapid antigen test is 10.40am., who runs the Travel Health Clinic on Dublin’s Dawson Street.
Initially the plan was he, his wife and three children were going to travel, but with Covid-19 still a significant problem and no vaccinations available for his children, the family decided that he would travel alone.He had booked and paid for a test with Randox in“As it is right now, I don’t see a way through,” he told The Irish Times. “I have done everything I was meant to do and then the world shifted and now I am just out of luck and there just doesn’t seem to be any options.
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