{"id":34376,"date":"2022-02-22T22:46:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T22:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=34376"},"modified":"2022-02-22T22:46:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T22:46:06","slug":"boots-will-sell-individual-covid-tests-for-six-pounds-from-tomorrow-but-will-slash-price-to-2-50-by-april-as-experts-urge-ministers-to-introduce-spain-like-cap-to-stop-retailers-cashing-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/02\/22\/boots-will-sell-individual-covid-tests-for-six-pounds-from-tomorrow-but-will-slash-price-to-2-50-by-april-as-experts-urge-ministers-to-introduce-spain-like-cap-to-stop-retailers-cashing-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Boots will sell individual Covid tests for SIX POUNDS from tomorrow but will slash price to \u00a32.50 by April as experts urge ministers to introduce Spain-like cap to stop retailers cashing in"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34377\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Lateral-Flow-test-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Lateral-Flow-test-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Lateral-Flow-test-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Lateral-Flow-test-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Lateral-Flow-test-770x770.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Lateral-Flow-test-293x293.jpg 293w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Lateral-Flow-test-360x360.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Lateral-Flow-test.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ministers were today urged to put a price cap on lateral flows when mass Covid testing is scrapped in England amid fears the private sector could cash in on the move. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10538349\/Boots-start-selling-Covid-tests-SIX-POUNDS-tomorrow.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Ministers were today urged to put a price cap on lateral flows when mass Covid testing is scrapped in England amid fears&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-covid-19"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Lateral-Flow-test.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34378,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34376\/revisions\/34378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}