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UK minister - there is no silver bullet on testing to allow travel

Published 29/07/2020, 07:58
Updated 29/07/2020, 08:50
© Reuters. Weekly cabinet meeting at Downing Street in London

LONDON (Reuters) - There is no silver bullet on testing which could allow quarantine-free travel, British culture minister Oliver Dowden said, responding to calls from the boss of Heathrow Airport for more testing to boost travel.

© Reuters. Weekly cabinet meeting at Downing Street in London

"It's not the case that you can simply test somebody and be sure that they don't have the disease. It can incubate over a period of time so there's not a silver bullet of just testing immediately at the border," Dowden told the BBC on Wednesday.

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No sense of logic - Then why you test your citizens at home if you use the argument the virus can incubate over a period of time. You got it wrong - it does not incubate over a period of time but RATHER symtoms shows after being infected after a period of time that is why we quarantine also with or without the infection according science
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