{"id":121453,"date":"2021-04-15T23:21:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T23:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=121453"},"modified":"2021-04-15T23:21:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T23:21:08","slug":"passengers-using-forged-gp-notes-to-avoid-the-cost-of-a-covid-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/passengers-using-forged-gp-notes-to-avoid-the-cost-of-a-covid-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Passengers using forged GP notes to avoid the cost of a Covid test"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Passengers are using forged GP notes to avoid the cost of a Covid test when they return from abroad, border officers say<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Border guards seeing &#8216;upwards of 100&#8217; fraudulent Covid test certificates a day\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>The fake letters are designed to help passengers avoid paying for tests or fines<\/b><\/li>\n<li><strong>If coming to UK for &#8216;urgent non-prearranged treatment&#8217; you don&#8217;t need a test\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Travellers\u00a0are trying to break Covid rules with forged doctor&#8217;s notes which claim they need emergency surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration officers are uncovering multiple examples of fake letters designed to help passengers avoid paying for tests or fines under the regulations, the Mail can reveal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Forged letters have been uncovered which say the passenger&#8217;s coming back for an emergency operation or other emergency treatment,&#8217; said a borders source.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When immigration officers phone up the doctors named on the letters, they don&#8217;t know anything about it.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under the current restrictions, anyone coming to the UK to &#8216;attend urgent, non-pre-arranged treatment&#8217; does not have to take a Covid test before travel, or on days two and eight after arrival.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/04\/15\/22\/41814188-9476687-image-a-17_1618523813071.jpg\" height=\"392\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Immigration officers are uncovering multiple examples of fake letters designed to help passengers avoid paying for tests or fines under the regulations, the Mail can reveal. Pictured: The arrivals hall at London Heathrow on Thursday<\/p>\n<p>Lucy Moreton, of the Immigration Services Union, added that border guards were seeing &#8216;upwards of 100&#8217; fraudulent Covid test certificates a day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She said many of those identified as fake had spelling mistakes on them, with the word &#8216;negative&#8217; often spelt incorrectly.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the fake doctor&#8217;s letters have been used by British nationals returning to the UK, it is understood.<\/p>\n<p>In February the Mail revealed passengers were arriving in the UK with forged negative Covid tests.<\/p>\n<p>Border Force officials detected the first counterfeit certificates within 24 hours of the new restrictions coming into force on January 18.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said it was &#8216;highly likely&#8217; that not all forgeries were being detected by border guards.<\/p>\n<p>It means travellers could be gaining entry to Britain when they are infectious &#8211; potentially with mutant coronavirus strains &#8211; after being close to hundreds of others aboard a plane.<\/p>\n<p>International policing agency Europol issued an alert to European Union members in January highlighting growing concern over the involvement of organised crime gangs in counterfeiting.<\/p>\n<p>It highlighted a case last December of forgeries being sold for \u00a3100 at Luton airport, plus cases from France, Spain and the Netherlands where fake certificates were advertised for as little as \u00a335.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9476687\/Passengers-using-forged-GP-notes-avoid-cost-Covid-test-return-abroad.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers are using forged GP notes to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":121452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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