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LONDON, April 6 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris
Johnson on Tuesday said he wanted a testing regime for
international travel to be easy and cheap, hinting that rapid
tests could be used after criticism from the airline industry
that current requirements were onerous.
The boss of easyJet Johan Lundgren has criticised
some of the government's plans to restart travel, questioning
the role of testing.
Asked about Lundgren's comments and asked if rapid lateral
tests could replace PCR tests in the requirements for
travellers, Johnson said: "I do think we want to make things as
easy as we possibly can ... The boss of EasyJet is right to
focus on this issue, we're going to see what we can do to make
things as flexible and as affordable as possible."
"I do want to see international travel start up again. We
have to be realistic... we can't do it immediately. But that
doesn't mean that we've given up on May 17."
(Reporting by Alistair Smout and Michael Holden)
