The government has announced that it will scrap Covid restrictions for anyone travelling from China to England.
From today (March 17), the UK Health Security Agency's testing programme for travellers arriving from China to Heathrow Airport will come to an end as the nation increases information regarding testing. China has also reportedly increased the availability of information regarding vaccination and genomic sequencing results, which allows for 'greater transparency' on their 'domestic disease levels'.
The testing programme was originally implemented in January after reports emerged of new variants of the Covid virus circulating in China. According to the government, the programme saw 99 people per flight take a Covid test - with 3,374 tests, 14 positive cases of the virus were identified, of which none were of concern.
