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The result of their post—arrival test. and from 4am on sunday morning, they won't have to take a pcr test within two days of arriving into england. they can take a lateral flow test instead, although that can't be a free nhs one. if they test positive, they must take a pcr, and that can be a free nhs test. now, this has been welcomed by travel businesses, who had said that the testing measures introduced to stem the spread of 0micron were holding back the sector's recovery. firms are now feeling more optimistic, but the past couple of months have shown how quickly things can change, and a lo...

And to laugh or not to laugh. a warning that �*cancel culture' could wipe out comedy. hello and welcome to bbc news. people with covid in england can now stop self—isolating after a week — following two negative lateral flow tests — effectively opening up christmas for thousands of people. the health secretary says it's to ease disruption to people's lives, and comes after the prime minister ruled out imposing further covid restrictions in england at this stage. so, from today, in england, self—isolation for those who have tested positive will be cut from ten days to seven days as lo...

She's a professor of epidemiology at university college london, and has published a paper on the effectiveness of lateral flows. are lateral flows as good as pcr is at showing someone has covid? this is what the government is saying, the direction of travel.— the direction of travel. yes, i think they — the direction of travel. yes, i think they are _ the direction of travel. yes, i think they are better - the direction of travel. yes, i think they are better at - the direction of travel. yes, i l think they are better at telling whether you are infectious and that's what matters right now...

Numbers are relatively modest, 100,000, is because that's the number of the government is confident it can actually be certain it can supply the tests for five weeks, and the risk of a more ambitious number of it not being able to deliver. that may be the scepticaljournalist in me, i don't know what you think. i scepticaljournalist in me, i don't know what you think.— scepticaljournalist in me, i don't know what you think. i think you are sot on. i know what you think. i think you are spot on- i don't _ know what you think. i think you are spot on. i don't know. _ know what you think. i thin...

Increase in students absent as well, 159,000 who were absent after testing positive for covid. the issue schools are grappling with, the bbc has spoken to hundreds of them around the country, the picture different depending on where you are, some schools more impacted than others, they are having to find creative solutions, some schools moving classrooms into assembly halls to cover for those classes that they cannot find temporary staff of four, otherwise known as supply teachers. the government say they are helping particularly we heard in that reportjust a moment ago how more than 320,000 c...