For travellers from China, it will be mandatory to undergo negative covid tests

This means that, for the first time since the spring, travelers from China can only travel to the UK if they have negative results within 48 hours.

A community monitoring will also be conducted. Anyone who takes a PCR test, such as in hospitals or care homes, will be asked if any of their relatives have been to China.

The samples will be quickly tracked and sequenced in laboratories to detect any new variants from China.

Steve Breen, former health secretary and chairman of House of Commons’ health committee, called for restrictions because China cannot be trusted to provide accurate information on the extent of the outbreak and variants.

He stated, “China is secret society, and it is clear that its data is unreliable and blocked.”

“We are entitled to not underestimate the reaction. The public is so confident that they know the lesson of two-years ago: time is of the essence. The audience is confused because they are in this place that was apparently not taught.

It was China on Friday Accused of withholding Covid dataIt was revealed that it had only shared less than 1000 Covid virus samples with the international scientific community in the past month.

These concerns are fueled in part by data seen by The Telegraph that shows that the Chinese government has uploaded only 940 virus sequencing to Gisaid since November 29th. This online repository is a global pathogen database that allows scientists and researchers to track new Covid variants.

These sequences reveal the genetic makeup of each infection, and whether or not the Covid virus has developed dangerous mutations. Experts say that if the data is limited, it could overlook the rest of world in case a new variant emerges.