Scrapping travel testing system ‘risks importing new Covid variants’

Professor Stephen Reicher said the system should have been ‘improved’ rather than ‘abandoned’ (Picture: Reuters/Getty)The decision to ‘abandon’ the testing system for international travel will increase the risk of importing new coronavirus cases and variants, a top scientist advising the Government has said.Professor Stephen Reicher, a member of the Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours, which feeds into SAGE, said officials could have improved the