U.K. Working on Covid Tests at Airports to Ease Quarantine
- Hancock sees mass rapid testing as route to opening economy
- Health Secretary says more tests needed with faster results
A medic performs a swab test on an arriving traveler at the Covid-19 test center at Schiphol Airport, in Amsterdam, on Aug. 17.
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U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the government is working on introducing tests for Covid-19 at ports and airports, a move that would ease the requirement on travelers to self-isolate on arrival.
“This is one of the examples of why mass testing can help,” Hancock told BBC Radio on Wednesday. “If you can have a test technology where the test result comes back in a matter of minutes rather than the next day because you don’t have to send it to the lab, then you can check that people don’t have and aren’t transmitting the virus now.”