5 January 2022
Boris Johnston has confirmed that, just like the Republic of Ireland, England will scrap the requirement to complete a pre-departure test.
The new rule will come into effect from 4am on Friday (7 January).
“When the omicron variant was first identified we rightly introduced travel restrictions to slow its arrival in our country. But now Omicron is so prevalent these measure are having limited impact on the growth in cases while continuing pose significant costs to our travel industry.” Said Mr Johnston.
“All these measures are a balanced and proportionate ways of ensuring we can live with Covid without letting our guard down,” he added. “And we can only do this because of the biggest and fastest booster campaign in Europe.”
