BREAKING: Islands to be put on UK's quarantine list instead of entire country
New quarantine rules will see travellers returning from specific islands made to self-isolate, rather than the current country-wide approach.
He then announced that seven Greek islands, including Lesvos, Tinos, Serifos, Mykonos, Crete, Santorini and Zakynthos, would be added to the UK quarantine list at 4am on September 7. However, those returning to the UK from mainland Greece will still not need to self-isolate.Shapps explained that travel corridors between the UK and specific regions could only be created where an area has ‘natural boundaries, like an island, as the risk then ‘diminishes significantly’.
There then must be ‘robust, reliable and internationally comparable’ data on the region’s coronavirus levels. Thirdly, the island must have direct flights from the UK or transport must take place through other ‘quarantine exempt territories’.supports HTML5 videoThe Foreign Office travel advice must then also align as much as possible, Shapps added. He said the new rules have been made in consultation with the Chief Medical Officer and Public Health England.
However, the advice does not mean all ‘additional islands’ will open up immediately. Shapps continued: ‘For example, when we removed Spain from the travel corridor list, there were 24 cases per 100,000. Today there are 127 cases, and it remains too high in the Balearic and Canary Islands as well.
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