The government will announce the date that day two PCR tests will be replaced by lateral flow tests for returning travellers "in the coming days", Grant Shapps has said.
The transport secretary told Sky News on Friday (8 October) that the government wants to implement the change in time for the October half-term.
"I know my colleagues over at health, and to a certain extent the home office, they’re the people who will have to implement this change, are working extremely hard on getting this done and so we anticipate having it ready for the half term," Shapps said.
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