The requirement for airplane arrivals will be lifted from Sunday, which has been hailed as a “huge boost to tourism” by the travel industry. Fully vaccinated arrivals had to show a negative test no later than 24 hours before departure. Kevin Munoz, the White House Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, hailed President Biden’s progress with the vaccines when he made the announcement. He said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would continue to monitor “science-based and variant science” but that the tests could now be scrapped. A Virgin Atlantic spokesman said: “The abolition of pre-departure tests for international arrivals in
