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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Josh Salisbury

Travel tests have ‘virtually no impact’ on spread of new variants, research finds

Day two lateral flow tests are currently required for travellers (Andrew Milligan/PA)

(Picture: PA Archive)

Travel tests have almost no effect in preventing Covid variants being imported into the UK unless new restrictions are introduced from within a day of the strain being present, a new analysis has found.

The research found that any travel rules would only delay a new variant’s peak by between two to eight days.

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