Pre-departure testing was a feature of travel for much of 2021, and was a cornerstone of the Global Travel Taskforce’s plan to restart international leisure travel last May. It was finally removed on 4 October, only to be reinstated on 7 December owing to the spread of Omicron.
Travellers still supportive of pre-departure testing
Government
James Chapple
12 January 2022
There was still broad support for pre-departure testing prior to the UK government’s decision to restore the measure in response to the emergence of Omicron variant of Covid-19 last November, new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reveals.
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