after they have shown a lateral flow test to be positive. that is the bit we are all a bit worried about. just because you are not coming from a red list country, doesn't mean you couldn't contract it from a green country, it would assume people would have to take a test and now we are saying we don't have to take a test? that's right, this is inevitably going to result in people bringing back more infections from abroad. given the high levels of infection we already have in the country, perhaps that is not much of an issue. the key issue has to be the importation of variants — we know that previous waves of infection have been driven by travellers returning to the uk. look at what we are facing with the delta variant that originated in india. we mustn't let our guard down,