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Vargas, this is going to sound like an advert, but it's not.

But what was the last thing you bought in Boots?

Uh, I bought some Vitamin D tablets.

Oh, I've started taking Vitamin D.

And you know what I realized today when I was punching it out

the little blister pack, this is like the world's worst advent calendar.

It's like counting down the number of days to the end of winter.

It's like there's still a lot to go.

Six months, October to April, we should all be taking Vitamin D to boost our immune systems.

Well, now if you want to go into Boots and get a COVID PCR test,

so one of the gold standard tests, you can do that.

And it'll cost you 120 pounds because they're providing that as a as a private service.

And in a few weeks, they're going to have a new test called,

let me get this right.

It's from a company called Lumera, Lumera DX, yes,

which will take what 15 minutes?

12 minutes, I think.

12 minutes.

Yeah, you take 15, I'll give you 12.

Well, you might have to queue at the till for a couple of minutes and then explain what you want.

So the total process might be about 15 minutes.

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