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Work is to begin with industry on how to safely reduce self-isolation period with testing.
Work is to begin with industry on how to safely reduce self-isolation period with testing. The taskforce will also consider a wide range of other measures to support the travel sector including developing a global framework to make travelling easier.
The Department for Transport and the Department of Health and Social Care have been working with clinicians, health experts and the private testing sector on the practicalities of testing international arrivals.
The next step is to develop an operationalised approach, which is why the government is creating the Global Travel Taskforce to work at pace with industry on implementation and to identify options to reduce the self-isolation period while protecting public health.
The taskforce will accelerate work to inform proposals on a future testing regime and develop options for how this could be introduced.
See: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/taskforce-for-safe-return-to-global-travel-launched?utm_source=73c90090-f8e7-4f9c-b669-e7f6ae3685d4&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_content=immediate
07 Jun 2021
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