Aviation bosses have urged ministers to relax travel testing rules after data suggested no coronavirus variants of concern were found in hundreds of thousands of travellers returning from amber and red list countries.
Testing remains a key part of the Government s traffic light scheme, with even travellers coming back from green list countries having to take a test after they get home.
But analysis of official data published by The Telegraph showed that fewer than one in 60 people returning from an amber or red nation tested positive for Covid-19.
More than 320,000 people arrived back in the UK from countries in those categories between July 1 and July 21 and no variants of concern were identified.
Malta
Jerusalem
Israel-general
Israel
Taiwan
Hong-kong
United-kingdom
Brunei
Portugal
Czech-republic
Austria
British-indian-ocean-territory