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TRavellers will need to provide a negative Covid-19 test before arriving in the UK as part of an effort to prevent the spread of new coronavirus variants.
Passengers, including returning Brits, will be required to show proof of a negative test result obtained less than 72 hours before departure for the UK, with fines of £ 500 for those who break the rules.
Those arriving from countries not on the travel corridor list will still need to self-isolate, even if they test negative, although they will be allowed out of quarantine with a second negative test after five days.
Exemptions will apply for carriers, children under 11, air and ship crews, and those “traveling from countries without the infrastructure available to perform the tests.”
The new rule is expected to come into effect early next week, and while the current plan only applies to England, the Scottish Government has confirmed that it will take similar measures “as soon as possible”, without adapting the current policy it does. make all ‘non-essential’ travel to Scotland illegal. Wales and Northern Ireland are also expected to announce their own testing requirements today.
Heathrow Airport Chief Executive Officer John Holland-Kaye told BBC Radio 4’s Today program that this new measure should only be temporary. “We need to have a roadmap on how to get out of this because aviation is vital to us as a small island trading nation,” he said.
The new, strict border controls come amid growing fears over South Africa’s highly contagious variant Covid, and the government has now banned arrivals from 12 southern African countries, including South Africa, Namibia, Seychelles and Mauritius, to halt. its spread.
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