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UK, France, Spain to impose mandatory COVID tests for travellers from China
The United Kingdom is set to begin to require passengers arriving from China to provide a negative COVID test before they enter the country.
According to The Telegraph, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak decided to take the precautionary approach due to surge in China’s COVID cases, and following the country’s decision to drop its strict zero-COVID policies.
Travellers from China will only be allowed to fly into the UK if they test negative within 48 hours of departure and anyone taking a PCR test in the UK will be asked if they have recently travelled to China.
UK members of parliament and ministers reportedly came under pressure from the public to reintroduce travel restrictions for arrivals from China, even though scientific advisers said the reintroduction of travel tests was not justified because the continent is well protected.
France has also reportedly said passengers arriving from China must present a negative COVID test before boarding flights.
According to Bloomberg, French authorities said random PCR tests will be carried out on arrivals from China at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, starting on Sunday.
Genetic sequencing will be done on positive cases in a bid to identify potential new variants of the virus.
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