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Routine Covid testing to end for some as part of test shake-up

Liverpool City Region area has third highest COVID rate in England

Uk tourists may need to show three additional documents at Spanish border control (Photo: Getty Images)

UK holidaymakers warned they need 3 extra documents to enter Spain

UK tourists heading to Spain face tighter rules if they get Covid symptoms (Photo: Getty Images)

UK tourists face new Covid rules in Spain if they have symptoms

Map of COVID spread in Liverpool. Image: Gov.uk

The Liverpool areas with highest Covid infections in the past week

The Transport Secretary is expected to scrap the arrival tests later this month (Photo: Getty Images)

Covid arrival tests ‘to be axed’ for fully vaccinated returning to UK

The new measures applies in England from 11 January (Photo: Getty Images)

Crucial Covid rule change affecting use of PCR tests takes effect today

Covid lateral flow tests (pictured) have been hard to come by in recent weeks (image: Getty Images)

Health Minister says 350 million Covid-19 tests will be available soon

100,000 critical workers to get daily lateral flow tests from next week

Health officials are understood to have drawn up plans to limit PCR tests to people who are symptomatic (Photo: Getty Images)

Follow-up PCR testing rules to be ‘relaxed’ to tackle staff shortages

Royal Liverpool University Hospital entrance, Prescot Street.

Visiting suspended at three Liverpool hospitals as COVID rates surge

One in four people taking PCR tests in areas of the Liverpool City Region got positive results in the run up to Christmas.

COVID-19: Record high rates in 5 of 6 Liverpool City Region boroughs

A lateral flow test result is interpreted by the two letters on the device (Photo: Shutterstock)

What it means if Covid lateral flow test result shows a faint red line

As the Omicron variant of Covid continues to spread across the UK, you may be wondering if the symptoms differ from other strains of the virus (Photo: Shutterstock)

The 'surprising' Omicron variant symptom that can appear when eating

A woman wearing a protective mask walks her dog on the Esplanade du Trocadero square in front of the Eiffel Tower in March 2020 (Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

France travel: UK traveller restrictions to be tightened - what are the new rule...

Everyone must self-isolate for 10 days if they come into contact with a case of the Omicron variant (Photo: Getty Images)

COVID-19: isolation law to stay until March - £10k fine for rule break

Everyone must self-isolate for 10 days if they come into contact with a case of the Omicron variant (Photo: Getty Images)

New Covid isolation laws to stay until March - with £10k fine for rule break

Lucy gives her take on the new Omicron variant

What the people of Liverpool think about the new face mask rules

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43,000 people may have been given wrong negative PCR Covid test results

Bristol Airport

Travel test rules set to change - what you need to know

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said ministers hope to announce in the next few days the switch from a PCR to a lateral flow test for eligible fully-vaccinated travellers taking their day-two Covid test (Photo: Shutterstock)

PCR Covid tests to be scrapped ‘before half-term’ - which could save families £2...

New rules to make travel to the UK from overseas easier and simpler have come into force (Photo: JORGE GUERRERO/AFP via Getty Images)

Amber list for travel scrapped as simplified rules come into place

New rules to make travel to the UK from overseas easier and simpler have come into force (Photo: JORGE GUERRERO/AFP via Getty Images)

UK’s travel rules change: what you need to know as amber list is scrapped

Number of ‘red list’ countries for international travel set to be slashed this week (Photo by Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

Number of ‘red list’ countries for international travel set to be slashed this w...

The testing centre at Liverpool John Lennon Airport.

Liverpool John Lennon Airport gets COVID-19 rapid testing lab on site

Ryanair will launch 14 new routes from the UK this winter (Photo: Getty Images)

Ryanair is launching 14 new routes this winter to destinations across Europe

The government will remove some 57 companies from its list on Monday (23 August) as they no longer exist, or do not provide the relevant tests required for travel (Photo: Getty Images)

‘Cowboy’ Covid travel test providers to be struck off Gov.uk list over misleadin...

People who have been fully vaccinated can still transmit the Delta variant (Photo: Getty Images)

Vaccinated people can still pass on Delta variant - but protection remains high

TUI cancels more holidays amid uncertainty over travel restrictions