Covid Test7 Jul 2020 10:28
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"Passengers arriving at Heathrow airport from “red list” countries like the US will be able to pay for Covid-19 tests to beat quarantine, under a pilot expected to be backed by the Department for Transport.
Grant Shapps, the Transport Secretary, has signalled his support for Covid-19 testing as a way to revive flying after it was decimated by the pandemic and is seeking to agree international standards that could allow quarantine-free air travel.
The Daily Telegraph has established that 21 countries including Austria, Iceland, Jersey, Madeira, Thailand, Singapore, Barbados, Jamaica and Japan have already introduced airport tests that can allow some passengers to avoid quarantine if they are negative for Covid-19.
Under the plan, arrivals at Heathrow would have to pay £150 for the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) based swab tests, as used by the NHS and administered in a clinic airside at the airport.
The 90-second test, which takes swabs from throat and nose, produces results in between seven and 24 hours and has a 100 percent accuracy rate, according to medical trials.
They would be expected to quarantine until they got their results, which, provided they were negative, would then exempt them from self-isolating for the remainder of the 14 days. Only arrivals taking the tests and getting an all-clear would be exempt."
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