The Government has yet to announce which countries will be categorised as “green”, “amber” or “red” on its “traffic light system” when holidays resume this year.
A country’s classification will depend on the proportion of its population that has been vaccinated, as well as on its infection rate and the prevalence of Covid variants. Based on these metrics, the Telegraph has identified seven countries that are likely to feature on the holiday “green list”.
Israel
The country is currently leading the charge when it comes to vaccinations. 58.6% of the adult population has received a first dose, and 54.2% are fully vaccinated. This is likely to be the main metric used by the Government, when building its “green list”. …
Gibraltar
… Bars and restaurants are open again in Gibraltar and face masks are only required on public transport. What’s more, British Airways has just launched flights from London City to Gibraltar, starting from June 25th – indicating the airline is optimistic The Rock will feature on the “green list”. It was also the last “quarantine free” option in 2020. …
Madeira
The island of Madeira is already welcoming travellers who can provide evidence of vaccination. What’s more, case numbers are low in Portugal – 32.55 over a seven day average. The UK, by comparison, is at a similar rate of 29.5 per 100,000. However, the vaccination drive in Portugal lags behind (only 13.6% have received a first dose), making it unlikely that mainland Portugal appear on the “green list” when it is unveiled in May. …
The Caribbean
Since the pandemic began, the Caribbean has been the most reliable corner of the world when it comes to holiday options for Britons. Prior to the UK Government scrapping all travel corridors in January 2021, there were eight Caribbean islands welcoming British travellers, including the likes of Barbados, Cuba, St Lucia and Antigua. All require testing prior to departure or on arrival, or both, as a means to dodge quarantine. Given their willingness to introduce new protocols and their collective heavy reliance on tourism, it is quite possible the islands will start accepting some kind of vaccination certificate as an alternative to a negative test. …
Iceland
As of March 18th, all Britons who have been fully vaccinated against Covid are allowed to travel to Iceland without being subject to PCR testing and quarantine. The exemption also applies to UK travellers who can provide valid proof of prior infection. …
Malta
Malta has said it will reopen to vaccinated British arrivals from June 1st. This, accompanied by the country’s strong vaccination drive (a third of the population has received a first dose) puts Malta high on our green watch list. …
USA
… With London – New York City flight route one of the busiest in the world for business travel, we can expect to see the UK Government prioritising a USA travel corridor in the coming weeks.
The Telegraph has also listed countries it expects to see included on the “amber list” (such as Cyprus, Greece and Croatia) and notes that the “red list” already exists, featuring South Africa, Brazil, the Philippines and more. Arrivals from these countries are mandated to enter a 10-day quarantine, costing £1,750.
Worth reading in full.
Travelling to a country on the “green list” will not mean that you are free from forking out for a PCR test upon your return to the UK. The Telegraph has the story again.
British holidaymakers will have to pay hundreds of pounds for Covid tests if they want to take a trip abroad this summer under plans announced by the Government on Friday.
Travellers who want to visit countries on the safe “green list” will still be expected to pay for gold standard PCR tests on their return to the UK at around £120 each – an extra cost of almost £500 for a family of four.
People who have been fully vaccinated will still be required to take the PCR tests on or before the second day of their arrival back in the UK because of Government concerns that “green list” countries could still harbour new Covid variants.
Holidaymakers arriving from those countries will not have to spend any time in quarantine under the new traffic light system, which is expected to replace the current ban on foreign travel from May 17th.
Also worth reading in full.
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Who cares? I mean really, in the grand scheme of things, this crumb/carrot is just classic misdirection.
Loss of civil liberties? Well at least we’ll let you leave the country, get a tan and get pissed one last time before you’re 100% enslaved, controlled and trapped.
Great! I can travel to Iceland without worrying about dying from covid , but then be killed by some volcano whose name I could never hope to pronounce.
Hey, what do you know! I got the right reason, but just the wrong country.
I will stick to my original post though because I can pronounce La Soufriere even if I don’t know how to type grave accents.
Well “green” is a misnomer. You still have to take a test. I won’t be doing it, not for a holiday. I feel for anyone who has close family/loved ones in other countries as they have a dilemma.
Jab, test and go!
Well done, citizen, your social credit score will reflect your compliance.
When it’s jab, test, pay carbon credits and go, we expect equal submission.
Hello though… those are some spicy comments you’ve been making on Facebook. We’re not sure you’re the best brand ambassador for Our Nation. Your travel privileges have been revoked until you have paid for, taken and passed the completely voluntary mandatory sensitivity, diversity, social and climate justice training.
I won’t go abroad until this nonsense is over. But I feel sorry for people with relatives to visit
I think you’ve put your finger on one of the wider aspects of this. With all the downsides of artificially cheap (essentially subsidised) air travel, the fact is that internationalism is a fact of life, despite little ‘nation state’ dreamers. There is a generation that has grown up with a wider Europe as their home – thus the generational resistance to the damaging old fart irrelevance of Brexit – an irrelevance that has been brought home by the Covid scam.
Rick with a silent P ?
LOL
Oh, don’t be silly.
Why is it that remoaners are simply incapable of displaying a little dignity?
What if this nonsense is never over, and this is the New Normal?
Sorry to break the bad news Steve – it is only just beginning
Why would vaccination rates make a difference when Dear Leader Johnson is just after saying that Our Vaccines don’t stop you catching or spreading the China Virus?
And why all the testing if everyone is vaccinated?
It must be time for Hancock and Schapps to get the dartboard out to decide which countries are on each list.
Only in zero covid world would you have that system as HART bulletin told us some weeks ago. You are going from one country with endemic virus to another country with endemic virus and you are supposed to believe that this dangerous traveller coming back can spark a full blown epidemic in a population close to herd immunity.Utter nonsense.
So, you won’t need a test in some countries if you show that you’ve been vaccinated. As we know, the vaccination doesn’t 100% stop you contracting or transmitting covid. So at the point of entering a country, it’s ok I’ve been vaccinated but actually I have covid and can pass it on, but Ssshhhh don’t tell anyone just let me in. How dangerous the false sense of security people are being given is. Although that said, given its very low mortality rate, the decision makers will pat themselves on the back and say it was the right think to do.
When are people going to realise that this pantomime, right from December 2019, has been set up in order to prepare and hold us down until the Great Reset can be put in place?
This ridiculous tory govt is just playing for time until the Real People in charge of this Reset tell it to stand down because they are in charge.
Unless we get our brains in gear and start pulling together to rid the world of these psychos who want to rule it, we are well and truly stuffed.
I don’t know how we can do this when so many are rushing to get themselves vaxxed without knowing what the long term effects are, its going to be very difficult to get people to wise up.
We must get rid of the so-called elite and also the ones who are making shedloads of money right now. Does anyone have any useful ideas how ?
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