(ANSA) - LONDON, DECEMBER 07 - From today, for those traveling to the United Kingdom (from 12 years of age onwards) the double swab is in force: one test to be carried out in the 48 hours before departure, the other once arrived in Gran Brittany and is expected to self-isolate pending the result.
The measure, introduced to contain the spread of the coronavirus variant known as Omicron, also applies to those who have completed the vaccination cycle.
The new variant is spreading in the country, with internal outbreaks from which infected people emerge who have not had contact with people arriving from abroad, and according to scientists the number of cases recorded so far, 336, is underestimated compared to the real situation.
Professor Tim Spector, head of the project called Zoe Covid Symptom, reiterated this today, according to which the real figure is between one thousand and two thousand infections.
Faced with this situation, he expressed some doubts about the restrictions: "They initially make sense when the cases are really low here and very high in other countries, but when we reach a balance, in my opinion it really makes little sense to keep them in force".
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