Pre-Departure CCP Virus Tests Not Required for UK Arrivals: Transport Secretary

People arrive at Heathrow airport in west London on Nov. 30, 2021. Adrian Dennis/ AFP via Getty Images

The UK’s Transport Secretary Grant Shapps defended the government’s decision to not require all travellers entering the UK to take pre-departure tests.

Shapps suggested that jumping the gun on mandating pre-departure tests would unnecessarily “kill off the travel sector again.”