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From 15 February 2021, travellers aged 5 and up arriving in England from outside the Common Travel Area, or arriving having been outside the Common Travel Area in the preceding 10 days, were required to purchase a testing package, consisting of a day 2 test and a day 8 test.
NHS Test and Trace was a government-funded service in England, established in 2020 to track and help prevent the spread of COVID-19. The programme is part of the UK Health Security Agency; the service and the agency are headed by Jenny Harries . The service was the responsibility of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and the ...
The mobile app standardizes the health verification process confirming whether passengers have been vaccinated against, or tested negative for, COVID-19 prior to travel. Passengers will use the app to create a digital passport linked to their e-passport, receive test results and vaccination details from laboratories, and share that information ...
COVID-19 rapid antigen tests or RATs, also frequently called COVID-19 lateral flow tests or LFTs, are rapid antigen tests used to detect SARS-CoV-2 infection . They are quick to implement with minimal training, cost a fraction of other forms of COVID-19 testing , and give users a result within 5–30 minutes.
The EU Digital COVID Certificate was created to facilitate travel within the European Union. It launched in July 2021, and is available to citizens of the EU, and also to travellers from outside of the region. [2] [3] [4] By December 2022, the member states had issued more than 2 billion EU Digital COVID Certificates. [5]
In December 2021, new regulations made a COVID passport, equivalent proof of vaccination, or negative lateral flow test mandatory for entry into many high-density venues in England to combat the spread of the Omicron variant. NHS COVID Pass
The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (No. 4) Regulations 2020 ( SI 2020/1200) is an English statutory instrument made on 3 November 2020 by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic . The three sets of First COVID-19 tier regulations which had been in place since ...
A COVID-19 testing centre for travellers at Heathrow Airport. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries and territories imposed quarantines, entry bans, or other travel restrictions for citizens of or recent travelers to the most affected areas. [1] Some countries and territories imposed global restrictions that apply to all foreign ...
The development of COVID-19 tests was a major public health priority during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. In January 2020, scientists from China published the first genetic sequences of SARS-CoV-2 via virological.org, [3] a "hub for prepublication data designed to assist with public health activities and research". [4]
NHS COVID-19 was a voluntary contact tracing app for monitoring the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in England and Wales. It had been available since 24 September 2020 for Android and iOS smartphones, and can be used by anyone aged 16 or over. [1] Two versions of the app have been created. The first was commissioned by NHSX and developed by the ...