LONDON (AP) – London Heathrow Airport, the UK’s busiest airport, opened a new coronavirus testing centre on Wednesday, which he says could halve the time others have to stay at home after arriving from countries on the UK government’s quarantine list.
The government said it was not in a position to access the facility, but insisted that it was working with airports on how a new testing regime can reduce the 14-day quarantine era faced by travellers arriving from more than a hundred countries, adding France. Spain and the United States.
In recent weeks, British tourists have faced chaos after the government removed countries from its safe countries list at very short notice. The travel recommendation to the two most visited countries, Spain and France, has been replaced in the short term, for example, which has caused many readers to temporarily seek to return to the UK to avoid the mandatory quarantine period.
In addition to provoking the holiday plans of many British families, sudden adjustments have shaken the industry, which seeks to save anything from the summer after the closing weeks.
The hypothesis is developing that Croatia and Greece, two other holiday destinations incredibly popular for British families over the summer, could be added to the quarantine list in the coming days, a replacement that would further disrupt the expected return of young people to school early. September Array
“The tests will not only be the ‘quarantine wheel’ that so many passengers have faced in Spain and France, but will also open flights to key trading partners such as the United States, Canada and Singapore,” said Heathrow Executive Chairman John Holland-Kaye. .
The new facility was installed through the aviation company Collinson and the logistics company Swissport in Heathrow Terminal 2. According to them, more than 13,000 swab checks will be carried out for passengers every day, with effects “in a few hours”. It is proposed that newcomers take a moment to check at home and be able to leave their quarantine 14 days earlier if both pass. Similar double-verification schemes are used in other parts of Europe, adding Germany.
“All we want now is for the government to allow others with negative evidence to be temporarily released from quarantine,” said Richard Cawthra, Swissport’s director of advertising.
British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he understood the drawbacks of the quarantine era and insisted that the government do everything possible to facilitate the time other people have to stay home when they arrive in the UK. months in the future through saliva control that would lead to more or less instant effects would help.
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“This opportunity to have ubiquitous evidence to reopen all sorts of things, reduce the burden of quarantine arrangements, which no one needs to implement, to allow us to reopen parts of the economy, is an incredibly vital task within the government right now,” Hancock told BBC radio.
He refused to allow himself to be influenced for the time of testing potentially on the entire population in a country that has recorded more than 41,000 coronavirus-related deaths in Europe.
“We’re expanding it for the rest of the year,” he said. “I’m going to give the company a deadline.”
He also said that new data on the virus in England would emerge from a broader infection investigation through the Office of National Statistics.
The statistics signature will increase the number of other people who will test in the survey from 28,000 every two weeks to 150,000 until October.
“This will allow us to expand spaces potentially affected by local epidemics and continue our fight to prevent the spread before winter,” he said.
“The knowledge and accumulated data will say our national, regional and local responses to the pandemic, allowing this country to return to what we love to do.”