(ANSA) – LONDON, JANUARY 24 – No more Covid test requirement from 11 February for those traveling to England and fully vaccinated. This was announced in Parliament by the British Transport Minister, Grant Shapps, after the advances given by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
The decision accelerates the path towards the lifting of the restrictive measures by the Tory government against the backdrop of a curve in infections and hospitalizations that have been declining for a couple of weeks in the Kingdom, after the wave caused by the Omicron variant. This is a change, much awaited by the tourism industry and by air carriers, after many months marked by the constraint of the negative buffer.
The UK had already lightened the prescription earlier this year, with the abolition of the double molecular test imposed on travelers in the wake of the Omicron alert and its replacement with a simple antigen test within the second day after arrival. From 11 February this too will no longer be necessary, Shapps underlined to the House of Commons, adding that for now only the compilation of the digital form (locator form) introduced since the beginning of the pandemic to verify passenger data and status remains in force. with respect to infection. (HANDLE).
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