Travellers from China to England will no longer need virus test proof

Travellers flying into England from mainland China will no longer have to provide proof of a negative pre-departure test from next month.
The change will come into effect on April 5, exactly three months after the measures started.
Ministers brought in controls after a spike in cases following Beijing’s relaxation of its zero-Covid policy. Their removal comes after greater transparency from China, the government said.
In a statement, the department of health and social care said that there has been increased information on “testing, vaccination and genomic sequencing results” on China’s domestic disease levels.
The data indicates that Covid variants seen in China “continue to be the same as those already circulating in the United Kingdom”, it added. The Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention also reported that all regions had passed their infection peak, the statement reported.
The temporary testing programme was implemented in January.– BBC