London – Britain will on Monday set out plans to restart international travel, using a \u201ctraffic-light\u201d system as the country cautiously emerges from lockdown.<\/p>\n
The UK has set a tentative date of May 17 to relaunch foreign travel, currently banned except for a handful of permitted reasons. This has created massive pent-up demand for summer holidays abroad. Travel destinations will be ranked green, amber or red according to virus risk, Downing Street said late Saturday, with the government to provide more details on Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are doing everything we can to enable the reopening of our country… as safely as possible,\u201d Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.<\/p>\n
The government said the new system \u201cwill help ensure the UK\u2019s vaccine progress isn\u2019t jeopardised and provide clear guidance for travellers\u201d. People heading to low-risk \u201cgreen\u201d countries will simply take a virus test before and after they travel, the government said. But those going to amber or red countries will have to self-isolate or quarantine afterwards.<\/p>\n
Health minister Edward Argar said as cases surge on the European continent, Britain would have to be \u201cvery careful\u201d as it considered further restrictions. \u201cOne of the things we don\u2019t want to see — and just as the vaccination programme is working so well — is getting new variants or risking new variants getting imported into this country,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Currently people arriving in the UK from abroad are required to self-isolate for 10 days.<\/p>\n
British nationals who arrive from a banned \u201cred list\u201d of high-risk countries face costly quarantine in government-approved hotels.<\/p>\n
The government urged people not to book summer holidays, saying it was \u201ctoo early to predict\u201d which would be the green-lighted countries.<\/p>\n
The government has announced it will allow a number of people to attend public events such as football matches from this month in trials of a virus certification system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
London – Britain will on Monday set out plans to restart international travel, using a \u201ctraffic-light\u201d system as the country cautiously emerges from lockdown. The UK has set a tentative date of May 17 to relaunch foreign travel, currently banned except for a handful of […]<\/p>\n
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