Among the countries on the red list, only British, Irish and foreign nationals with a UK residence permit were allowed to enter England, but were also quarantined for ten days in a hotel designated by the British government. The per capita cost of this hotel quarantine for adults was £2,285 (about £1 million) and had to be paid by passengers.
However, starting at 4am BST on Monday and 5am CET, London also removed the last seven countries from the red list – Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Peru and Venezuela. Earlier this month, 54 other countries were on the list, including Afghanistan, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Cuba, Georgia, Indonesia, Montenegro, South Africa and Thailand. However, the British government removed 47 countries from the red list once on October 11, and the last seven countries fell out of this category on Monday, so those coming to England from these countries will not have to go to an expensive hotel. quarantine.
Among other countries in the UK, Scotland and Wales will apply this measure to England from Monday. The Northern Ireland government has yet to say when it will take over the new regulation. However, the red tier had not completely disappeared. According to Britain’s Department for Transport, if this is required by public health protection, the government is ready to re-add countries and regions to this list.
The British government will also recognize vaccination programs in 30 other countries from Monday. This means that travelers who have received the full dose of the coronavirus vaccination in these countries only need to be tested for coronavirus after arriving in England, not before departure. The British government has now recognized vaccination programs in 137 countries and territories since November.
London in recent weeks has lifted a series of international travel restrictions previously imposed to curb the coronavirus pandemic. At the beginning of October, the British Foreign Office removed 32 countries from the list of destinations that it did not propose to visit for any purpose due to exceptional and inevitable reasons.
A few days later, the green and yellow epidemic risk classifications that the British government imposed on foreign countries in May – the latter included Hungary – were removed, leaving only the red category.
A week ago, travelers who had been fully vaccinated with internationally approved vaccines were no longer required to retest the PCR to designated laboratories on the second day after arrival in England, and a much cheaper lateral flow test in a few minutes was sufficient.
