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How many tests do people need to get?
1 - Passengers get their first mandatory test within 72-hours of their departing flight.
(When they arrive - from a country that isn t on the list of 33 red countries that must quarantine in a hotel - they must isolate for 10 days)
2 - On day two of self-isolation, a Covid PCR test will be administered. The tests will be posted to the traveller, it is understood.
3 - An optional test can be taken on the fifth day of at-home isolation. If it comes back negative, the traveller will no-longer have to self isolate.
4 - Another mandatory test will be carried out on day eight.
All travellers to be tested twice for Covid after arrival
Testing to be extended to all arrivals from all other countries in addition to those coming from the 33 red list nations
5 February 2021 • 8:30pm
All travellers will be tested twice for Covid after arrival in the country under Government plans to prevent the spread of new variants.
Ministers have already ordered tests on day two and day eight for passengers from the 33 red list countries who will be quarantined in Government hotels from February 15.
But Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, will announce next week that the testing will be extended to all arrivals from all other countries, who currently have to quarantine at home.