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First UK airport coronavirus testing begins

Passengers flying from Heathrow to some destinations will be offered a coronavirus test.

Passengers flying from London Heathrow to some destinations will be offered a coronavirus test. For about $100, from today, passengers travelling to Hong Kong can take a test at the airport and receive a result within an hour, as the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Tom Burridge explains. But Simon Calder, travel editor of the Independent newspaper, tells us that with no global standard on testing, there is a pretty confusing picture for people who need to travel internationally.
Also in the programme, President Trump's America First policies have involved pressing the reset button on trade relations with the rest of the world, with the aim of bringing jobs back to the US and levelling the playing field between the US and China. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ economics correspondent Andrew Walker assesses whether Mr Trump has achieved what he set out to do. And we get reaction to US trade policy changes from Mark Rowlinson, counsel at United Steelworkers, which is the largest union representing steel and aluminium workers in Canada.
Plus, with home office space in high demand as a result of the pandemic, our regular workplace commentator Peter Morgan argues a home office is the new selling point for estate agents all over the world.

(Picture: Seats marked out for social distancing at Heathrow airport. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

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