Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance he is making available to travellers wishing to come to the UK who have recently recovered from covid-19 and are deemed no longer to be contagious about the need to take a test given that it may show a positive result.

Proof of natural immunity is not accepted as an alternative to proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test. Those who have recently recovered from infection should take a pre-departure lateral flow device test, as it less likely to return a positive result from historic infection. Those who are fully vaccinated are not required to take pre-departure tests.

Guidance for travellers on testing for travel to England is at available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-testing-for-people-travelling-to-england#positive-test-results