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Gemma Jones

UK ministers set to scrap all covid travel restrictions 'within days'

UK ministers are looking to scrap all covid travel restrictions just in time for the Easter Holidays.

Those looking to get away for a spring break will be glad to hear that the government may get rid of all covid travel restrictions within days under new plans being discussed by ministers.

Travelling has become more straight forward in recent months for people who have been vaccinated and they no longer need to take covid tests before departure and then on their return to the UK.

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And while the passenger locator form has already been simplified, it remains a requirement for people heading back to the UK from holidays.

Currently the form is a lot more simple and requires people’s address, contact number and flight details.

But that could all change again as the passenger locator form could be scrapped completely.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps wants to discuss the removal of the passenger locator form as it could be a boost for the tourism industry ahead of the Easter holidays.

Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary said scrapping the passenger locator form is long overdue.

He told the Daily Mail: "It's a shambles. They should ditch it, it's completely irrelevant. Nobody collects them, nobody checks them or follows up on them.

"They were designed to pretend that the politicians were doing something to protect people."

Also under discussion for ministers will be the possible removal of the testing requirements for the unvaccinated.

For unvaccinated people currently they need to still have a lateral flow test, 48 hours before they travel back to the UK and then have another PCR test two days after they arrive.

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