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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Telemachus" data-source="post: 2320181" data-attributes="member: 81578">It’s going to be a narrower window so 2 not 3 days. Initial reports have been ambiguous about whether it would be 2 days pre-arrival or 2 days pre-dep. As you rightly say, the wording of the amended SI will be the authoritative source but in the meantime the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-testing-for-people-travelling-to-england" target="_blank">the Gov.UK guidance</a> has been updated within the last hour. Key sentence: ‘From 4am 7 December, you can take the test any time in the 2 days before the service on which you will arrive in England departs’. So that is better than it might have been for long-haul arrivals.EDIT: Still to be clarified whether that 2 day period is prior to departure from AU or to subsequent departure from transit ports when one is travelling straight through. Depends on interpretation of ‘the service on which you will arrive in England’. Text on Gov.UK confusingly talks about '3 days' (not yet updated?): 'If you’re travelling by plane and changing flights, where possible you should get a test within 3 days of your final departure point to England'.</blockquote>