Great Britain wants to make it easier for its citizens to travel to the summer holidays and for tourists to enter their own country and is therefore planning to suspend certain travel and quarantine rules.
The decision was preceded by harsh criticism from airlines and the tourism industry about the quarantine requirement for travelers from certain countries. Currently, anyone entering the UK has to comply with a 14-day quarantine because of Corona.
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The London government announced next week that it would publish a list of “low risk” countries from which people could enter the UK without complying with the quarantine requirement.
There will be talks with countries such as France, Greece and Spain, the changes could then take effect in the week from July 6th. According to British press reports, the changes will primarily affect the Mediterranean countries, which are popular with British tourists.
Currently, 1,100 new infections per day in Great Britain, and the trend is falling
Even returning vacationers from the countries concerned would no longer have to go into quarantine. The list includes according to the BBC Spain, France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Finland, Belgium, Turkey, Germany and Norway, but not Portugal or Sweden.
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A “new risk assessment system” will make it possible “to carefully open a number of safe travel routes around the world,” said a government spokesman. This should create the opportunity “to travel abroad during the summer holidays and to support the British economy through tourism”.
The number of new infections is falling in Great Britain, but the seven-day average with around 1100 new infections per day is about twice as high as in Germany. So far, 310,836 people have been officially registered, and 43,498 have died of Covid-19 and its aftermath.
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State Department updates travel advice
The Foreign Ministry therefore plans to update its travel advice, which currently advises against all unnecessary trips abroad. This should make it possible to travel on certain routes. Protective masks should be worn on airplanes and ferries.
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The airlines British Airlines (BA), Easyjet and Ryanair opposed mid-June the applicable 14-day quarantine has been sued for passengerswho are entering the country. This government regulation would have “devastating consequences for the British tourism industry and the economy” and “destroy thousands of jobs”, they criticized.
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Air passengers from abroad have been in quarantine in the UK for 14 days since June 8th. London wants to fight the spread of the corona virus. The rule should apply for at least three weeks.
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