2021-08-10T04:28:00Z
One of Britain’s biggest private test firms has been hit by an angry backlash from travellers after pictures emerged of dozens of its swabs piled up in plain view on streets.
The images of its overfull metal drop boxes with completed test kits balanced on top of them and awaiting collection were branded a “symbol of the absolute mess that PCR testing has become”.
Randox, which is said to have made £120 million from processing 15 million tests since the start of the pandemic, recommends customers should use its free drop boxes to return their test samples.
However, there are only around 200 of the drop boxes around the UK, which has left some customers angry at having to make lengthy drives only to arrive and find them already overflowing.
The row comes amid growing pressure on the Government to crackdown on the chaotic travel testing system that has led to allegations of rip-offs, misleading pricing and holidaymakers missing flights because of delays in returned test results.
TnT debacle involving private companies - nothing’s changed since last year … 
