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Green Motion Offers Customers Discounted COVID-19 Tests
Working in partnership with London-based Private Harley Street Clinic, mail order COVID tests will be available at a substantial discounts for Green Motion customers in the U.K. wishing to travel to destinations such as Cyprus who require evidence of a negative test for entry.

Green Motion has partnered with the Private Harley Street Clinic to provide customers with easy access to PCR COVID-19 tests.
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In hopes of empowring car rental customers to travel safely, international car rental brand Green Motion launched its COVID-19 testing initiative, the company announced.
Working in partnership with London-based Private Harley Street Clinic, mail order COVID tests will be available at a substantial discounts for Green Motion customers in the U.K. wishing to travel to destinations such as Cyprus who require evidence of a negative test for entry, or simply those who want a little extra peace of mind for when they travel.
"We are absolutely delighted to be able to offer this essential service to our car rental customers," Green Motion founder and CEO Richard Lowden said in a statement. "With the travel landscape continually changing it is now becoming the new normal to be required to present a negative COVID-19 test on arrival at a growing number of destinations. In a continuance of Green Motion's efforts to support safe travel within the COVID-19 environment, we have partnered with the renowned Private Harley Street Clinic to provide our customers with easy access to PCR COVID-19 tests to enable them to physically travel to the destinations that they wish to, as well as give them the peace of mind that they are travelling as safely as they can."
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