Corona Virus: How Are We Doing?

[kingrollo]

Can you print one out from your NHS app?

Well you download then print it - or get a PDF copy emailed.

 

[kingrollo]

There's a lot of nonsense posted on the net about NHS Covid passes.

AFAIK, there is no country in the world that demands a digital version (although it can smooth things when travelling to the USA on some airlines).

There's no requirement to have the smartphone app, either - anyone can access the NHS website with a simple browser and then download, print and/or store their pass on paper.

IME, both the domestic and travel passes have a month's validity.

Just checked mine - it doesn't have an expiry date - and if it's to prove you have had required jabs why would it expire.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Thanks @classic33. I believe the printed versions are only valid for four weeks. It seems you are totally stuffed if you are abroad for longer. I really don't want to be enslaved by a smart phone.

So print another pass whilst abroad. Problem solved.

 

[kingrollo]

So print another pass whilst abroad. Problem solved.

But you only need them for arrival in other countries. Not for flight back to UK.

 

[vickster]

But you only need them for arrival in other countries. Not for flight back to UK.

Maybe he’s touring through /entering multiple countries over a period of more than a month?

 

[Ajax Bay]

Thanks @classic33. I believe the printed versions are only valid for four weeks. It seems you are totally stuffed if you are abroad for longer. I really don't want to be enslaved by a smart phone.

I fear, old slow chap, that the days of travel abroad (to England even) are numbered for those who want to travel without both a phone and unreasonable friction. But the plus side is that you have the confidence developed in the university of life to carry a minute computer and the discipline to use it for what YOU want, which may well not include daily communication (as @PK99 has said and see also @Alex321 's comment). Any enslavement is self-imposed and addiction is avoided with a little effort. The world changes and you, albeit reluctantly, will need to adapt. If my aged mother can finally operate an iPad (after years of resistance) then you can manage to do the same on a cheap but capable phone and a <£6 a month tariff.
I guess an option is to travel with a capable younger person and abrogate responsibility - in preparation for the instigation of the power of attorney that will ease your (and my) final administration.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I went abroad last week. I had to install the NHS app in order to be able to get the vaccination passport thingy, which was a bit annoying - I can't see why they can't do it from the .gov.uk website. But I printed it off and carried that with me. And no one wanted to look at it.

That said the phone was used to do online check-in on the way back, but printed boarding cards etc were obtained at the desk when checking in bags.

I've never used my phone for boarding cards or tickets or any of that malarky. I murder the planet by using printed copy.

And as usual, the automated passport gate wouldn't let me through, even with a brand-new passport. Technology, eh.

 

[Landsurfer]

My wifes just back from her 3rd trip to the Canaries since September last year ..although she had all relevant paperwork she was never asked for any of it in the UK (DSA) or on arrival or departure from the Canaries ... The latest trip with TUI she did not have to wear a mask on the plane in either direction ... Considering how aircraft pressurisation systems work masks have always been pointless ....
But the thing about the paperwork is you dare not have it with you ...

 

[DaveReading]

I went abroad last week. I had to install the NHS app in order to be able to get the vaccination passport thingy, which was a bit annoying - I can't see why they can't do it from the .gov.uk website.

No app required - see my previous post. Just a browser.

https://covid-status.service.nhsx.nhs.uk/

 

[Dogtrousers]

My wifes just back from her 3rd trip to the Canaries since September last year ..although she had all relevant paperwork she was never asked for any of it in the UK (DSA) or on arrival or departure from the Canaries ... The latest trip with TUI she did not have to wear a mask on the plane in either direction ... Considering how aircraft pressurisation systems work masks have always been pointless ....
But the thing about the paperwork is you dare not have it with you ...

We flew with Finnair last week and were required to wear masks throughout the flight. Which was no big deal.
But as you say, aircraft are probably not a bad place to be - sitting in a tube with two ginormous fresh air compressor machines outside.
We stayed masked in the airports too.
No one wanted to see my vaccine passport that I had lovingly printed out.

 

[ColinJ]

Aargh - that's how I have been feeling... LF test for me when I get up!

Lurgy!!!

Hopefully, the vaccinations will do their job so it doesn't get any worse than it is now, which just feels like a nasty cold.

 

[classic33]

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Lurgy!!!

Hopefully, the vaccinations will do their job so it doesn't get any worse than it is now, which just feels like a nasty cold.

Hope you're feeling better soon.

 

[ColinJ]

Hope you're feeling better soon.

Thanks.

I'm trying to get hold of my pal from Hebden Bridge. There is a very good chance that I caught this from her because she is the only person I have seen face to face in the past 2 weeks apart from shoppers that I walked past in Lidl and Aldi.

She was feeling strangely fatigued last week so perhaps that's what it was.

My sister and niece in Devon caught it last week. That is the second time in 6 months for my niece, but she works in a supermarket and so meets many people every day.

 

[Cathryn]

I’m day 6 and still testing positive. Feeling absolutely fine now though. Maybe a slight headache but mild enough to ignore! I’ve been lucky!

 

[Electric_Andy]

My ex wife had covid last week, just mild cold symptoms. I had to have our son all week. She tested negative 7 days after. It seems everyone I talk to has had it recently