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New Covid travel rules ‘too late to stop potential Omicron wave in UK’
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theguardian.comThe Omicron variant is “spreading pretty rapidly” across the UK and new travel rules will be too late to prevent a potential wave of infections, one of the government’s scientific advisers has said.
Ministers have announced all passengers arriving in the UK will have to take a pre-departure Covid test because of fears about the spread of the new variant. The measures will be introduced on Tuesday.
Prof Mark Woolhouse, a member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), said the move was too late to make a “material difference”. Asked about the new travel rules on BBC One’s The Andrew Marr Show, he said: “I think that may be a case of shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
“If Omicron is here in the UK, and
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