UK to remove final seven countries from COVID-19 travel 'red list'

Record ID: 1643801

  • Title: UK to remove final seven countries from COVID-19 travel 'red list'
  • Date: 28th October 2021
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  • Embargoed: 11th November 2021 17:10
  • Keywords: Britain COVID-19 United Kingdom airport coronavirus quarantine hotel red list transport minister Grant Shapps travel
  • Location: WELWYN HATFIELD AND LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
  • City: WELWYN HATFIELD AND LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Topics: Europe,Health/Medicine
  • Reuters ID: LVA007F12NS5J
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  • Story Text: Britain will next week remove 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 said on Thursday (October 28).
    The seven countries which will be removed from the list from November 1 are Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Peru and Venezuela. Britain's chief medical officers ruled that they were no longer of concern.
    But Shapps said the changes only applied to fully vaccinated passengers from those countries, Anyone not vaccinated would dtill have to take tests and quarantine.
    The measure will be adopted across the UK but 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 nations whose coronavirus vaccinations are recognised by Britain, taking the total to more than 135 countries.
    (Production: Natasa Bansagi)
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