Airport coronavirus testing is to be trialled at a UK airport in a bid to end quarantine rules, The Times claims. 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 Swissconsent port and the Collinson Group will run the two-week trial with the RT-PCR tests being administered by nurses using throat and nose swabs.
A quicker and easier saliva test will also be trialled. Travellers will then be asked to travel home or to the place they are staying and await test results which are expected to be ready in as little as seven hours via an online portal.