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International travellers arriving in England, including UK nationals, will have to provide proof of a negative test for the CCP virus before boarding.

THE government finally caught up with at least some of the science today as it announced that anyone entering the country would now have to produce a negative Covid-19 test. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said that from next week passengers travelling to England from abroad — including British nationals — will have to have been tested within 72 hours of their departure. Similar measures were announced by the Scottish government, with Wales is expected to follow suit. The belated move was widely welcomed, but transport trade unions, opposition leaders and members of the scientific com...

Vaccines are being approved. Now comes the hard part The swift development of a safe vaccine represents a scientific triumph. Rolling it out at scale and inoculating a critical mass of the population will require no less ingenuity Photo: Victoria Jones/PA Wire/PA Images Soon after Chinese scientists shared their information about the coronavirus genome in January, the race to find a vaccine began. Pharmaceutical companies around the world began developing over 270 different Covid-19 vaccines between them, conducting multiple tests simultaneously to speed up the process and using funding from ...