hello and welcome. the uk looks set to become the latest country to impose covid screening for travellers coming from china as cases in the country surge. the chinese government has said it would fully reopen its borders next week for the first time since march 2020. but a number of countries, including the united states, india, spain, italy and in the last few minutes france have said passengers arriving from china will need will need a negative covid test before they travel. lets speak to our political correspondent helen catt. put this in the picture from a british perspective.- put this in the picture from a british perspective. same story? there s been british perspective. same story? there s been a british perspective. same story? there s been a lot british perspective. same story? there s been a lot of british perspective. same story? there s been a lot of concern - british perspective. same story? i there s been a lot of concern about the reliability of info
why we are seeing countries, mentioning a few they re announcing that they will bringing testing regimes. some are testing on arrival, some are adopting a approach of requiring a negative test before someone gets on a plane in china. what we are expecting is that the uk government will follow the us eat and adopt that second approach, making sure that people have a negative test before they fly from china. up until yesterday, ministers in the uk government had been saying that they did not have any plans to introduce testing and yet, they were looking at the data and there was nothing in it is suggested that there were any new variants of star max spreading in china that would bring a new risk. covid. the change seems to come from a lack of reliable information coming from china. my understanding is that any measures will be