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What travel needs in these testing times… is affordable tests

Business
James Chapple
24 November 2020

The government’s decision to cut quarantine to just five days through a so-called "test and release" scheme is undoubtedly positive news for the travel industry.

Travellers will soon be able to take a test after five days' quarantine to be released from self-isolation

It will give people confidence to book a trip departing in the immediate to near future in the knowledge they can avoid an onerous 14-day stint self-isolating, if they choose to.

But the government’s confirmation of its long-anticipated test and release regime on Tuesday (24 November) was scant on detail in one key respect – the cost of testing.