The UK’s COVID-19 red list will be a thing of the past from next week, in another epic milestone in the country’s Travel & Tourism #ArrivalRevival.
The United Kingdom will remove next week the last seven countries on its coronavirus “red list”, which currently requires newly arrived travellers from these destinations to spend 10 days in hotel quarantine, transport minister Grant Shapps says.
The seven countries which will be removed from the list from November 1 are Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Peru and Venezuela.
The UK’s chief medical officers ruled that they were no longer of concern.
Shapps said the change would be adopted by England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and that several hundred hotel rooms would be kept on standby in case authorities decided to put countries back on the red list.
He also said 30 more countries would be added to a list of jurisdictions whose coronavirus vaccinations are recognised by the UK, taking the total to more than 135 countries.
Next week is also an exciting time for Australia, with Smartraveller axing the ‘Do not travel’ advice and international borders reopening on Monday 1 November.
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Source: AAP
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