It turns out that the new rules requiring passengers from China to be tested for Covid before traveling to England do not apply to children.
Children aged 11 and under are exempt from mandatory pre-departure testing, which takes effect Thursday, January 5th.
The Department of Transportation (DfT) has released full details of the new rules in response to a surge in cases in China and Beijing’s lack of transparency about the extent of the epidemic in that country.
Those aged 12 years and over planning to travel from China to England must take a Covid test no later than two days before departure.
The testing rules apply to all direct and indirect flights from mainland China, including stopovers in Hong Kong and Macau. There are no direct flights from mainland China to the rest of the UK.
They apply whether the person is in transit through England or whether it is their final destination.
Travelers must provide the original test result notification in a printed document, email or text message verified by their airline, and the result must be in English, French or Spanish, the DfT said.
Test result reports must include your name, date of birth or age, test result, date the sample was taken for the test, the name of the test provider and their contact information, and whether the test was a lateral flow or PCR test. test.
Travelers cannot use the test provided by the NHS as a pre-departure test.
People arriving from China do not need to self-quarantine on arrival or fill out a UK passenger tracing form as the UK is tracking Covid prevalence and tracking new variants rather than tracking people.
Starting Sunday, January 8, up to 2,000 passengers from mainland China arriving at Heathrow Airport per day will be required to undergo voluntary testing by representatives of the UK Health Agency. This study aims to find new variants that may have arisen in China, which is believed to have millions of cases per day.
Individuals who are asked to take a voluntary test at Heathrow Airport must be over 18 years of age.
Source: I News
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