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International travel should reopen slowly, scientist warns

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Don't miss a thing by getting the latest from the Manchester Evening News sent direct to your inbox International travel should reopen slowly, with any traffic-light system having the potential to be “leaky” to coronavirus variants, a senior scientist has said.

Professor Robin Shattock, head of mucosal infection and immunity at Imperial College London’s department of medicine, said an ideal scenario would be for people to quarantine when they return from any country – although this was unlikely to be seen as a practical option.

He said it was possible coronavirus will become “much more of a fairly trivial infection” for most people, while it was still uncertain whether the entire population would need to be vaccinated again each winter.

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