UK 'set to announce China arrivals must have negative Covid test' amid spike

PASSENGERS arriving in the UK from China could soon need a negative Covid test before travelling. Ministers had been facing pressure to impose border checks to stop any dangerous new mutations from…

Some Tory MPs had called for a more robust response from the Government.

However, chairman of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation - Professor Andrew Pollard - said the imposition of travel restrictions was unlikely to stop variants reaching the UK. He told Radio 4’s Today programme: "Trying to ban a virus by adjusting what we do with travel has already been shown not to work very well.Most read in The Sun

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