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Mark Tanzer: ‘Anything we can do to get the timeframe down through testing is going to help, but I don’t think we’ll be in a quarantine-free environment by October’
‘Quarantine will remain so needs to be targeted’
Abta chief doesn’t expect Covid-testing to provide rapid solution. By Ian Taylor
A comprehensive Covid-testing system for travellers is unlikely by October, says Abta chief Mark Tanzer, but he is hopeful the government will move to a “more targeted” quarantine regime by then. Speaking on a Travel Weekly
webcast, the Abta chief executive said: “We lobbied the government very hard to move away from blanket advisories to country advice, so that has been a step forward. Now we
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need to move to the next stage where confidence in testing and in the data means the government can be more accurate in its travel advice so areas that aren’t affected are not put off limits. “The government is clearly taking
a cautious approach to quarantine, and we’re not going to stand against that. What we want is its application in a more targeted way.” Asked what he hopes to see by
the time of Abta’s Travel Convention on October 14, Tanzer said: “I hope
we can move from whole country to regional advice.” However, he warned: “I don’t think
we’ll have a comprehensive system of testing in place by October. The technology is there. The question is the physical process. How do you move people through an airport with a large-scale testing programme without snarling up the airport?
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