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		</div><p>The UK foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has played down the benefits of Covid-19 testing at airports, amid Labour calls for industry-damaging quarantines to be reviewed.</p>
<p>Mr Raab said there is “no silver bullet” in airports and the Government hopes at some stage to “ease up” on the requirements for people to self-isolate at home for 14 days after returning from certain countries.</p>
<p>UK opposition party, Labour, in a letter to Britain&#8217;s Home Secretary Priti Patel, argued the “dire warnings” from the travel sector about the use of “chaotic” blanket self-isolation advice meant it was time to review the methods being used to prevent the spread of Covid-19 from those arriving in the UK.</p>
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<p>Labour&#8217;s Nick Thomas-Symonds said a “robust testing regime in airports” could minimise the need for those returning from countries with high coronavirus prevalence to quarantine for two weeks.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">We need to fix the chaotic current quarantine arrangements. Labour is calling for a rapid review into options around airport testing and follow-up tests that could help protect people&#39;s health, boost public confidence and save jobs <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Marr?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Marr</a> <a href="https://t.co/Qur21I6boF">pic.twitter.com/Qur21I6boF</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Nick Thomas-Symonds MP (@NickTorfaen) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickTorfaen/status/1302565447527735296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>He suggested a “two test system”, citing Iceland as an example where people are tested on arrival and then again after five days have elapsed.</p>
<p>If a person produces two negative results then their quarantine can end, the Labour MP said.</p>
<p>Mr Thomas-Symonds also voiced “serious concerns” about the low level of monitoring of incoming travellers, claiming “less than a third of passenger locator forms are checked”.</p>
<p>But Mr Raab, when pressed about airport testing, told BBC One’s Andrew Marr Show: “Let’s just be clear about this when we think about airports – there is no silver bullet in airports.</p>
<p>“The current data suggests that the success rate of positively identifying people with Covid with a test in the airport is less than 10%.”</p>
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<p>Put to him that those numbers increase if passengers are then tested again seven days later, Mr Raab said: “There is no silver bullet in the airport alone and that’s why we have the quarantine.</p>
<p>“So, the direction of travel will be making sure we have the capacity and the ability for when the time is right to ease up on the self-isolation at home, and that’s certainly something that we’ll be looking at.</p>
<p>“But we couldn’t – and I think Labour have got themselves into a terrible muddle on this – the idea that one test in an airport could resolve the quarantine issues… we couldn’t safely do that.</p>
<p>“We’re not going to let up on a measure which is crucial for keeping the virus under control.”</p>
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