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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