Holidays: Travel corridor list latest – which countries are exempt from quarantine?
Boris Johnson announces closure of travel corridors
Holidays are currently banned by the UK Government due to the rise in coronavirus cases. The travel corridor list had previously given much hope to British holidaymakers. If a country was on the list then no quarantine was required.
Weekly updates were given by Grant Shapps on the latest travel corridor information.
However, this is not to be the case today.
Today is not to be like previous Thursday afternoon when the Transport Secretary revealed which countries were on or off the list and shared new travel advice.
This is because all travel corridors have been suspended.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson made the announcement last week.
This means that anyone entering the UK has to quarantine for 10 days.
It doesn’t matter whether they are travelling from a nation previously on the exempt list or not.
Therefore Shapps has no update on this matter this week.
The current Government advice states: “All travel corridors are suspended.
“The following countries, territories and regions were removed from the exempt list at 4am, Monday, January 18.
“If you arrive in England from any of these countries, territories or regions after 4am Monday, January 18, you will need to self-isolate.”
The nations previously on the travel corridor list were as follows:
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Australia
Bahrain
Barbados
Bermuda
Bhutan
British Antarctic Territory
British Indian Ocean Territory
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Cambodia
Cayman Islands
Cuba
Dominica
Falkland Islands
Faroe Islands
Federated States of Micronesia
Fiji
Finland
Gibraltar
Greek islands: Corfu, Crete, Kos, Rhodes, Zakynthos
Greenland
Grenada
Hong Kong
Iceland
Japan
Kiribati
Laos
Macao (Macau)
Malaysia
Maldives
Mongolia
Montserrat
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Northern Mariana Islands
Norway
Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands
Rwanda
Samoa
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Solomon Islands
South Korea
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Sri Lanka
St Barthélemy
St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
St Kitts and Nevis
St Lucia
St Pierre and Miquelon
St Vincent and the Grenadines
Taiwan
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Tonga
Turks and Caicos Islands
Vanuatu
Vietnam
The last update to the travel corridor list took place on Saturday, January 16.
This saw Aruba, Bonaire/St Eustatius/Saba and Qatar removed from the quarantine list.
Shapps tweeted on Friday: “Travel Corridors assess public health risk from the original SARS-COV-2, but it’s impossible for the Joint Biosecurity Centre to provide live scientific updates to predict which countries or regions will now originate new variants. Travel Corridors are therefore suspended for now.
“There will be more enforcement checks & fewer exemptions. International arrivals will need to have a negative COVID-19 test & self-isolate for 10 days or Test to Release after five. This action will slow the spread of new variants whilst millions receive their vaccinations.”
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