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In the UK, transport minister Grant Shapps has been on the BBC this morning, and given a little more detail on what the government are expecting people to do in order to travel internationally once testing rules are downgraded from having to take a PCR test to taking a lateral flow test.
PA report he told BBC Breakfast said: “If it’s positive, you’ll automatically receive a PCR test, you’ll be in the NHS system, as with the normal test and trace, so you’ll get the PCR without having to do anything further, and of course, be asked to isolate.