Under plans to phase out blanket quarantine restrictions, several hundred passengers a day arriving at a major UK airport will be asked to volunteer to be tested for free. Airport services firms Swissport and Collinson will run the two-week trial with the RT-PCR tests being administered by nurses using throat and nose swabs. Passengers testing positive will be referred to Public Health England and it's hoped that those testing negative can then avoid being quarantined. Under the government's quarantine rule which was introduced on June 8, all travellers returning to the UK must quarantine for 14 days unless they are on the list of exemptions. "Both businesses have come together with an intelligent way to assist the government; not to remove the quarantine but to complement it.

Source: Daily Mirror June 20, 2020 09:36 UTC