The government says the voluntary testing of people flying into England will no longer be required.
Covid testing for travellers coming to England from China will end, the UK government has announced.
The Department of Health and Social Care said from Friday, 17 March "passengers aged 18 or over travelling from mainland China and arriving at Heathrow Airport will no longer be invited to take a voluntary test on arrival". The DHSC said China was sharing more information around testing, vaccination and genomic sequencing results, providing greater transparency on its domestic disease levels.
The Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention also reported that all regions had passed their infection peak, DHSC said.
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