The government’s new test to release scheme, designed to cut quarantine from 10 days to five days through testing, is "hindering rather than helping" travellers, the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) has said.
Exonerated: Former WTTC chief executive Gloria Guevara (Credit: WTTC)
Test to release went live on Tuesday (15 December) with 11 testing partners, but one immediately pulled out and several others were found to either be already beyond capacity or not ready to start processing tests.
This was despite the launch coming the best part of two months after it was initially detailed by transport secretary Grant Shapps in mid-October, and a month after it was formally announced in mid-November.
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