Yesterday Boris Johnson introduced that each one journey testing can be dropped for totally vaccinated travellers into the UK – that means that from 11 February, you may strike “order day two take a look at” out of your vacation to-do checklist.
There are marginally extra developments for unvaccinated travellers, in reality, who from the identical date is not going to need to quarantine and now not need to take a take a look at on day eight after arrival – leaving simply two assessments (a pre-departure and a day two) on their checklist.
This follows the step by step scrapping of journey guidelines such because the pre-departure take a look at for double-jabbed travellers and the emptying of the crimson checklist in December – simply weeks after it was dramatically re-filled.
Transport secretary Grant Shapps has known as this newest growth “a return to normality not witnessed since early 2020.” – although in reality, the testing requirement for journey didn’t are available in till 2021.
So what do all these fixed modifications imply for journey? Is it secure to e-book a vacation? May testing out of the blue return with a brand new variant? And have we actually seen the final of the crimson checklist?
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