LONDON: Britain's Heathrow Airport renewed its call for COVID-19 testing at airports on Tuesday (Aug 11) as it reported an 88 per cent plunge in ...
Last week finance minister Rishi Sunak said the government would not hesitate to add more countries to its quarantine list when asked whether France could also join it.Advertisement"Tens of thousands of jobs are being lost because Britain remains cut off from critical markets such as the US, Canada and Singapore," said Heathrow CEO John Holland-Kaye.
"The government can save jobs by introducing testing to cut quarantine from higher risk countries, while keeping the public safe from a second wave of COVID." Over 860,000 passengers travelled through Heathrow in July - down 88 per cent on the previous year, but a slight uplift in traffic since the start of the pandemic, driven by the UK government's creation of the first"travel corridors" on Jul 4.
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