GENEVA - Covid-19 tests should be more widely used in international travel than quarantines, the chair of the World Health Organisation's Emergency Committee said on Friday .
"And clearly the use of the tests is certainly now supposed to have a much larger place compared to quarantine, for example, which would certainly facilitate things considering all the efforts which have been made by airlines and by airports," Houssin told a news conference. "Therefore it is trade-off that countries have to make, the risk of a traveller arriving and potentially starting another chain of transmission, against the obvious benefit of allowing travel from a social and an economic point of view," he said.
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