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Pre—depa rtu re tests from the early hours of friday morning, and those arriving from sunday morning will be able to take a lateral flow test rather than a pcr. our transport correspondent katie austin is at st pancras international station for us tonight. good news for travellers and the hard—pressed travel industry? yes. hard-pressed travel industry? yes. this marks — hard-pressed travel industry? yes. this marks a _ hard-pressed travel industry? yes. this marks a return _ hard-pressed travel industry? yes. this marks a return to _ hard—pressed travel industry? yes this marks a retur...

Two days of setting off, nor will they have to self—isolate while waiting for their post—arrival test, and from 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. this has been welcomed by travel businesses, who had said that the testing measures introduced to stem the spread of omicron were holding back the sector's recovery. firms are now feeling more optimistic, but the past couple of mont...

We also have more tools than we ever had before. we're ready. we'll get through this. >> reporter: the president also laying out clear testing measures that this administration will be doing, sending 500 million at-home tests in the month of january. but the question, will that be enough. striking a defensive tone when asked if there has been enough done on testing. >> what took so long or didn't take long at all. what happened was the omicron virus spread even more rapidly than anybody thought. if i had told you four weeks ago that this would spread by a day-to-day basis, it would spread by 5...

The last few minutes. we won't keep measures in place _ the last few minutes. we won't keep measures in place for— the last few minutes. we won't keep measures in place for a _ the last few minutes. we won't keep measures in place for a moment - measures in place for a moment longer than we need to and for example, now that there is community transmission of omicron in the uk and it has spread so widely across the world, the travel red list is now less effective in slowing the incursion of omicron from abroad. i can announce today that while we will maintain our temporary testing measures fo...

To make sure we have testing measures so we do not have bigger damage to the economy and bigger consequences. none of us wants to go backwards on restrictions we had lifted. we have to have the testing in place. but the government needs to be sensitive to the pressure on the travel industry and make sure they have support they need. from a ersonal they have support they need. from a personal perspective, _ they have support they need. from a personal perspective, i— they have support they need. from a personal perspective, i am _ personal perspective, i am interested what it is like to be ba...