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That is interesting. Good to be aware. I heard about these false positives too but i thought it was more prevalent with antigen rapid test.Either. I'd go for the antigen personally ; not just for cost and quickness, but also because of the much lower risk of a false positive.
What you get with the RAT (my partner does them where we live in a Public Health mobile unit) is 100% accuracy with a *negative*. They do have a higher false positive rate than the PCR tests, but are more reliable for *negative* than the PCR (oddly).That is interesting. Good to be aware. I heard about these false positives too but i thought it was more prevalent with antigen rapid test.
Do they clarify if "subject medical screening and quarantine" means that one must quarantine? That's how I read it. To be subject to something is to be required to do it.All passengers entering or transiting Portugal will need to show either a negative result from a COVID-19 NAAT test taken at most 72 hours before departure or a negative result from an Antigen test taken at most 24 hours before departure from your first embarkation point.
- All arriving passengers are subject to medical screening and quarantine.
That is not a big difference.The problem with antigens in Europe is that there is some EU approved list of antigen tests and their required specificity etc... So make sure all the required information is there on the travel certification. In the worst case, if you can get on the plane and the border control in Portugal wont like the test, they allow you to retake a test in Portugal. Good thing about PCRs is that once it says PCR you are good to go. I took a travel test in the UK last wednesday before my flight and the price was 80 pounds for PCR in comparison to 50 for the antigen.
I agree and have said the same many times. Unless you are leaving soon don't sweat it. I am going to leave on October 10th. I will start to worry about it October 1st.I will be connecting in Lisbon for an October flight to Madrid. I am flying on TAP Portugal Airlines, booked on the United Website with Star Alliance miles. This is what my reservation tells me I need for my connection. It mentions three types of tests: RT-PCR, NAAT, and Antigen.
I bet things will change by October, so I'm not trying to make sense of things yet.
(Copy and Pasted from my reservation on United website)
Transit
Lisbon, PT
Test type
RT-PCR
Timing
Test must be taken no more than 72 hours before your departure from San Francisco (SFO)
Additional requirements
- All passengers entering or transiting Portugal will need to show either a negative result from a COVID-19 NAAT test taken at most 72 hours before departure or a negative result from an Antigen test taken at most 24 hours before departure from your first embarkation point.
- All arriving passengers are subject to medical screening and quarantine.
I don't see any info where it says a self-test is excluded. From the EUHC:No self-tests. From https://reopen.europa.eu/en/from-to/OTC/PRT for travelling from outside of the EU to Portugal:
All authorised travellers are subject to the requirement for a pre-departure negative COVID-19 test.Accepted tests: PCR (taken within 72 hours prior to departure), or Rapid Antigen Test (taken within 24 hours prior to departure).Only Rapid Antigen Tests that are on the list agreed by the European Union Health Committee are allowed. Passengers who present tests that do not comply with the requirements must undergo a new test on arrival, at their own expenses, and must wait in a designated place inside the airport, until the result is notified.
Well, the last time I saw it was this morning while I was in a waiting room and idly scrolling through the French government's TousAntiCovid app and after having entered "Espagne" into an empty search field and then got transferred to diplomatic.gouv.fr where it says that if I want to travel to Spain and I am not duly vaccinated and I have not recovered from Covid-19 illness during the last 6 months I need to have the negative test result of either a NAAT test (such as RT-PCR and a range of others) or of an antigen test that is included in the European Commission's list of approved antigen tests, with a link to the list provided. And then it says: Saliva tests where the sample is not taken in a lab but at home do not allow to travel to Spain, also not the "rapid tests" done in a pharmacy that do not provide you with a written test result. The document about a traveller's negative antigen test result has to include the number of the passport or other ID of the traveller.I don't see any info where it says a self-test is excluded.
I also entered "Portugal". Here the entry is shorter than the one for Spain. It says (for travellers from EU+ and UK who are all entitled to non-essential trips to Portugal): a negative PCR test during the 72 hours before boarding; or an antigen test (TAAN, TRAg) performed by a lab and done during the 48 hours before boarding. Self-tests are not accepted.after having entered "Espagne" into an empty search field