As per latest reports, the Government of the United Kingdomhas announced that citizens of Estonia, Latvia, Slovakia, and St. Vincent andGrenadine will not be required to quarantine themselves upon arriving to theUK. These changes will come into effectstarting from the 28th of July 2020.
These countries were initially left out from the UK’s listof “74 Safe Spots” that was announced in early July however, the UK govt.decided to make changes in their previous list by including the aforementioned5 countries after what they termed as “risk assessment review”.
They’ve now decided to update their “list” on a weeklybasis.
It is also reported that Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps,is expected to announce a “Portugal air bridge” on Monday. The Government ofPortugal was apparently angered by what they termed was an “absurd” decision toexclude their country from their list.
Portugal has seen a decline in new coronavirus cases. At an averageof 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 berequired 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 butessential 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.Knationals.
Wales and Northern Ireland have introduced mandatory quarantinefor travelers from countries that haven’t been exempted by England. Scotlandhas its own list of “quarantine exempted countries” whose nationals will beallowed to enter their country and for their citizen’s to travel to theirs inturn.