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UK to remove final seven countries from COVID-19 travel ‘red list’
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The UK will remove the last seven countries from its COVID-19 red list, ending mandatory hotel quarantine for travelers from these regions starting November 1.
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain 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 said on Thursday.
The seven countries which will be removed from the list from Nov. 1 are Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Peru and Venezuela. Britain’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 nations whose coronavirus vaccinations are recognised by Britain, taking the total to more than 135 countries.
(Writing by William Schomberg, editing by David Milliken)
The article discusses the UK's decision to remove the last seven countries from its COVID-19 travel red list, ending mandatory hotel quarantine.
Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela are being removed from the red list.
The changes will take effect from November 1.
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