As per latest reports, the Government of the United Kingdom has announced that citizens of Estonia, Latvia, Slovakia, and St. Vincent and Grenadine will not be required to quarantine themselves upon arriving to the UK. These changes will come into effect starting from the 28th of July 2020.
These countries were initially left out from the UK’s list of “74 Safe Spots” that was announced in early July however, the UK govt. decided to make changes in their previous list by including the aforementioned 5 countries after what they termed as “risk assessment review”.
They’ve now decided to update their “list” on a weekly basis.
It is also reported that Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, is expected to announce a “Portugal air bridge” on Monday. The Government of Portugal was apparently angered by what they termed was an “absurd” decision to exclude their country from their list.
Portugal has seen a decline in new coronavirus cases. At an average of 127 new cases per day, it is the lowest they’ve seen since May 2020 however, parts of Lisbon have still remained under “partial-lockdown”
14 day Quarantine or “Self- isolation” will still be required for people that are travelling to the UK from the U.S.A, Canada, Sweden, Russia and most of Central and South America.
U.K govt. has been advising its citizens against all but essential travel since March 2020 however, U.K has now seen it relax this “condition” for destination that are no longer seen as “high risk travel zones” for U.K nationals.
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Wales and Northern Ireland have introduced mandatory quarantine for travelers from countries that haven’t been exempted by England. Scotland has its own list of “quarantine exempted countries” whose nationals will be allowed to enter their country and for their citizen’s to travel to theirs in turn.