(ANSA) - LONDON, JANUARY 24 - No more anti-Covid test requirements from 11 February for those traveling to England and fully vaccinated. This was announced in Parliament by the British Minister of Transport, Grant Shapps, after the previews given by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
The decision accelerates the journey towards the lifting of the restrictive measures by the Tory government against the backdrop of a curvature of infections and hospitalizations in decline for a couple of weeks in the Kingdom, after the wave caused by the Micron variant. This is a long-awaited change from the tourism industry and air carriers after many months of the negative buffer constraint.
The UK had already lightened the prescription earlier this year, with the abolition of the double molecular test imposed on travelers in the wake of the Omicron alert and its replacement with a simple antigen test by the second day after arrival.
From 11 February this too will no longer be necessary, Shapps underlined to the House of Commons, adding that for now only the compilation of the digital form (locator form) introduced since the beginning of the pandemic to verify data and status of passengers with respect to the infection remains in force. .
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