Passengers should be given single coronavirus test at Heathrow and allowed to miss quarantine, expert argues

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Passengers should be given single coronavirus test at Heathrow and allowed to miss quarantine, expert argues
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Exclusive: ‘We fully expect to go down to a single test on arrival. I think that may take only a few weeks’ – Dr Simon Worrell

, the health secretary, has said a testing regime must be “safe and secure” before travellers could reduce the length of time in quarantine.But Dr Worrell said: “We fully expect to go down to a single test on arrival. I think that may take only a few weeks.”

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