{"id":117354,"date":"2021-04-05T12:56:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T04:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117354"},"modified":"2021-04-05T12:56:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T04:56:11","slug":"uk-to-announce-new-international-travel-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117354","title":{"rendered":"UK to announce new international travel rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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LONDON, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — 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\n\n\n

The announcement comes as the UK has set a tentative date of May 17 to
relaunch international travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travel destinations will be ranked green, amber or red according to virus
risk, Downing Street said in a statement, with the government
to provide more details on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International travel is currently banned except for a handful of permitted
reasons. This has created massive pent-up demand for summer holidays abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are doing everything we can to enable the reopening of our country\u2026
as safely as possible,\u201d Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People heading to low-risk \u201cgreen\u201d countries will simply take a virus test
before and after they travel, the government said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But those going to amber or red countries will have to self-isolate or
quarantine afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently people arriving in the UK from abroad are required to self-
isolate for 10 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

British nationals who arrive from a banned \u201cred list\u201d of high-risk
countries face costly quarantine in government-approved hotels. 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\n\n\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\n\n\n

But it has not made clear whether it will issue \u201cvirus passports\u201d for
international travel, an idea backed by many tourism-dependent countries and airlines but opposed by more than 70 UK MPs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK has already given out more than 31 million first vaccine doses and
over 5 million second doses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rollout has far outstripped popular holiday destinations such as
France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This has boosted the public mood after more than 126,000 people died from
the virus in the United Kingdom, the highest toll in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Thursday, those living in England will be able to access two free
rapid virus tests per week, a measure aimed at curbing symptom-free virus
spread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This will make such tests far more accessible than currently. \u201cMore cases
will be detected, breaking chains of transmission and saving lives,\u201d the
government said Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Health Secretary Matt Hancock urged people to take up the offer, saying
\u201cgetting back to normal hinges on us all getting tested regularly\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lateral flow tests will be available at workplaces, community sites,
schools and colleges. People will also be able to order delivery of the
tests. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LONDON, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Britain will on Monday set out plans torestart international travel, using a \u201ctraffic-light\u201d system as the countrycautiously emerges from lockdown. The announcement comes as the UK has set a tentative date of May 17 torelaunch international travel. Travel destinations will be ranked green, amber or red according to virusrisk, Downing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":117355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117354"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}