at the moment we are setting up a trial with swissport and we have been working with them for the lastget it up and running within the next few weeks. that is if we can get the government support to allow us to avoid the 14 day full quarantine if people get the second test. the initial test cost £150, not cheap, but for many people who have been affected by the spanish situation, they would be happy to pay that rather than the extra time in quarantine. it is a relatively small part of the total cost and would allow more travellers to go about their normal business. of course, in time, the testing will get better and cheaper, and this may become more of the normal way in which we all live our lives in the coming years. why, then, do you think that the government has not moved more quickly on this. from your perspective you see a clear way ahead. why do you think the government is slightly more relu cta nt, government is slightly more reluctant, if that is the right word to use, to go ahead with this? well, ican to use, to go ahead with this? well, i can completely understand the governm

they are therefore must be two tests, the first one at the airport and we have been working with swissportese are the things we must look at if we are going to save millions ofjobs in this country as well as keeping people safe. looking back at what oliver dowden said on this programme, i put to him those points and he said we cannot rely on the test, the safest thing to do is to quarantine for 1a days. test, the safest thing to do is to quarantine for 14 days.” test, the safest thing to do is to quarantine for 14 days. i am not sure that that is the case actually. if you look at what other countries are doing, they are moving into testing. we will be living with covid for many months to come and we know that a blanket quarantine can work for protecting health, but it has a devastating impact on the economy, and every day we are hearing about thousands ofjobs being lost as a result of covid. if we go on for another year with a blanket quarantine, as a small island is trading nation, millions ofjobs will be lost. we must find a balance in between the two, learning from other countries were

joining me now is david evans, joint ceo of collinson, which along with swissport are trialling a test home for 1h days from the day following their arrival. so, let's talk to david now. david, this idea is that a coronavirus test as you arrive at the airport, just tell us how it would work, how much it would cost. that's exactly right. so, we have been talking about a test at the airport for quite some time now to make sure that we mitigate this exact situation that's happened where the handbrake has been pulled up and quarantine is pushed through. the test is pretty simple. what we're doing and what we've spoken about has now been rolled out in number of airports. it's where you book your test and then upon arrival, you take that test, you get your results back within generally within seven hours, sometimes up to 24. if that test is negative, than you do not have to quarantine, if you are one of the 43 exemptions from quarantine coming into the uk. so, the passenger would pay for it, how much would it cost? the passenger would pay for it, that's our current proposal, the pricing to d