In a joint letter, the newly appointed shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, and shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting, told the government it is an “urgent requirement” with more than 1 million travelling through UK airports each week.
The government dropped requirements for a pre-departure test for vaccinated travellers in the autumn, but in response to the new variant at the weekend reintroduced quarantine for all arrivals until they have received a negative PCR test.
The UK Health Security Agency yesterday announced eight further cases of the omicron variant have been confirmed in England – taking the total number of identified cases to 13, with a further nine cases in Scotland.
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