If you want to enter the UK, you have to show a negative Corona test by Tuesday (5.00 a.m. CET) before he or she comes into the country. The regulation applies to all adults as well as children and adolescents from the age of twelve. The PCR or antigen test must not be older than 48 hours. The measure is intended to slow the spread of the omicron variant of the corona virus, as the British Ministry of Health announced.
The government had previously made a post-arrival PCR test mandatory for all travelers. A quarantine obligation applies until a negative result is received. The government in London has also imposed a ten-day hotel quarantine at their own expense for people arriving from several African countries, including South Africa and Nigeria.
Critics had described the travel restrictions as ineffective, as the Omikron variant is already circulating in Great Britain. Domestic contact restrictions are more important, experts demanded. But the government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson does not want to get involved, apart from a reintroduction of the mask requirement in shops and public transport. “We’re still waiting to see how dangerous it is, what effect it has on deaths and hospital admissions,” Johnson said on Monday about the Omicron variant.