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The plans are a major boost to the aviation and tourism sectors, who have been pushing for a relaxation of travel rules. next, let's get the reaction from the chief executive of heathrow airport. it's the right thing to do, the government needs to show confidence in the vaccination programme to allow people who have been vaccinated to travel freely. there is more that can be done to make it easier for people to travel. in particular, getting rid of the pcr test as the first check that is carried out after you come back to the uk. why not replace that with a much cheaper lateral flow test as we...

To getjabbed. revenue losses at the uk's heathrow airport have increased to £2.9 billion — as the airport saw the same number of passengers in the first six months of 2021 as it did in just 18 days in 2019. heathrow has welcomed changes to the government's traffic light system, but warned passengers were being put off due to expensive testing requirements for travel. john holland—kaye is heathrow airport's chief executive. we are talking about the pcr tests here which are required for anyone coming into the uk and the reason we are told we need them is so the government can carry out geno...

July 9, 2021 ISLAMABAD: The United Kingdom has announced a new package of Genomic Sequencing Support to help Pakistan’s fight against new dangerous variants of COVID-19. Through the New Variant Assessment Platform (NVAP) program, Pakistan will be able to draw on the UK expertise and support to detect new, and potentially more dangerous variants of Covid-19 quickly. According to the British High Commission, the UK is a world leader in Genomic Sequencing for COVID variants and the second largest contributor to the international database for the variants. Through an agreement inked between th...

705 The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed the spread of the 'Delta' variant of the Coronavirus disease at the Achimota School in Accra. A total of 135 students and teachers initially tested positive for the coronavirus disease on campus with various variants. But it is 46 who are currently with active cases of the disease on campus as of Sunday, July 4, 2021. The active cases on the campus of Achimota is a combination of different variants but the Delta variant is the dominant one. The Director General of the GHS, Dr Patrick Kuma Aboagye who confirmed the presence of the Delta varian...

Other countries are doing that, you know, germany, france. at the moment, that doesn't apply in the uk, but it could — and it would open up potential for travel for lots of training over the summer. so i think it's really important — but it needs to happen quickly. the government have said that decisions on traffic light allocations take into account a range of factors, including genomic sequencing and variants of concern, and that both tailored and wider economic support is still available to the sector, including the furlough scheme. as the summer approaches, the industry is becoming inc...