Britain says all remaining coronavirus measures for travelers, including passenger locator forms and the requirement for unvaccinated people be tested for COVID-19 before and after their arrivals, will end Friday.
FILE - People in the arrivals area at Heathrow Airport in London, Jan. 26, 2021, during England's coronavirus lockdown. – Britain's government said Monday all remaining coronavirus measures for travelers, including passenger locator forms and the requirement that unvaccinated people be tested for COVID-19 before and after their arrivals, will end Friday to make going on holiday easier for the Easter school vacation.
The passenger locator forms require people to fill in travel details, their address in the U.K. and their vaccination status. The announcement came as coronavirus infections were rising in all four parts of the U.K. — England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — for the first time since the end of January. The latest government figures released Monday showed that there were more than 444,000 new cases recorded in the past seven days, up 48% from the week before.The number of hospital patients with COVID-19 is also going up, though it is still well below the peak recorded in January.
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