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Holidays Ruined for Millions of Brits if Spain and Greece are Forced on to “Amber Plus” List

by Michael Curzon
25 July 2021 4:53 PM

Reports suggest that the Government is considering demoting both Spain and Greece to the “Amber Plus” List alongside France due to fears over Covid variants, a decision that could ruin the holiday plans of millions of Brits – and not for the first time. MailOnline has the story.

The list effectively strips back ‘Freedom Day’ rules, which allow [fully vaccinated] holidaymakers to return from “Amber List” countries without having to face a mandatory period of self-isolation.

But, just days before the new rules were to be announced, the Government threw tens of thousands of holidays into doubt by revealing that double-jabbed Britons returning from France would still have to quarantine.

Now Greece and Spain, both of which are currently on the Amber List, could follow France onto the so-called Amber Plus List.

But, according to figures released by Labour, that could leave an estimated 5,857,558 people facing the prospect of last-minute quarantine requirements – plunging the holidays into “chaos once more”. 

The Government introduced an exemption for the requirement to isolate at home for 10 days for fully-vaccinated holidaymakers returning from countries on the amber list.

But ministers removed the exemption for France amid concerns over the Beta variant, creating what critics call an Amber Plus designation on the traffic light system for foreign travel.

There has been speculation that Greece and Spain could face the same measures as France, though the Government has not confirmed this. …

The opposition estimated the number of people to have booked holidays to those three nations by looking at official data for past travel and adjusting for lower willingness to travel during the pandemic by comparing with surveys.

A Department for Transport spokesman said: “The travel list allocations have not changed for Spain or Greece.

“We are closely monitoring the data and will take swift action on travel list allocations and international travel requirements should the data show that countries’ risk to England has changed.”

It comes as holidaymakers faced up to three-hour queues through passport control at Heathrow Airport yesterday after e-gates broke down and the ‘pingdemic’ left just one official at the desks, according to frustrated passengers.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: FranceGreeceHolidayOverseas TravelSpainSummer HolidaysTravel quarantine

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helenf
helenf
3 years ago

“covid ravaged care homes”. That should be neglect ravaged “care” homes. These care providers need to develop a spine and tell the government where to shove their “vaccine” mandate.

Last edited 3 years ago by helenf
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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  helenf

My sister-in-law, a qualified nurse, had worked at the same care home for seventeen years. In April she and three other care staff resigned on the same day, due to the owners introducing their own vaccine mandate. Since then the government has shoved its big fat nose into the sector and will no doubt be making a bad situation worse.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  helenf

Indeed, that is the only viable response.

If Care Homes don’t refuse the industry will collapse anyway. Of course this has always been part of the plan. The devastation in the wider population as care homes start to close for good will be immense.

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Hopeless
Hopeless
3 years ago
Reply to  helenf

Possibly some might, but I suspect that many are terrified of the prospect of losing any insurance cover or being sued to bankruptcy by the usual flocks of ambulance-chasing legal vultures.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
3 years ago
Reply to  Hopeless

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helenf
helenf
3 years ago
Reply to  Hopeless

I’m sure that’s true. But we know the “vaccines” don’t work anyway, and staff will still test positive (as many vaccinated people are doing now). And the deaths of elderly residents will still be classed as covid deaths even if they’re not, by lazy, frightened GPs who haven’t even clapped eyes on the patient. I doubt any lessons will have been learned from lockdowns #1 and #2.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  helenf

It’s not that lessons aren’t been learned. It’s that the same people with the same agenda are still running our show.

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MikeAustin
MikeAustin
3 years ago

So, mandatory jabbing for the relatives then?

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helenf
helenf
3 years ago
Reply to  MikeAustin

Oh yes. And will they be paid for their services? Or get a discount on care home fees? Doubt it.

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wendy
wendy
3 years ago
Reply to  helenf

Indeed they should be! It would be a turn up to be allowed more that a 45 minute visit anyway.

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  MikeAustin

Just say no.

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Pavlov Bellwether
Pavlov Bellwether
3 years ago

Template letters, information, resources, positive news and useful links: https://www.LCAHub.org/

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago

I’m going to say a dreadful thing.
I’m glad my father’s dead.
I’m glad, because he spent his last two years in a care home that was as good as a care home can be, and it was still bloody awful.
The thought of him in a short-staffed killing home is so utterly, utterly dreadful that the reality would have driven me mad.
Because it would be no use my volunteering to help out, would it? Better for them to watch my father dying amidst neglect and chaos than to allow an unvaxxer near him.

If you have a God, pray hard for the victims of this savagery,

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helenf
helenf
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

I felt the same about my father, who fortunately died before this shitshow began. It would have killed my mother not to have been able to visit him and knowing he was being neglected by a skeleton staff, PPE’d up to the max.

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

I’m sorry about your experience with your father. But if his care was ‘bloody awful’, then it wasn’t ‘as good as a care home can be’, speaking from my personal knowledge.

And that is the point – this sort of provision is demanding at the best of times, and depends upon the skills of the staff and management. If the government goes poncing around with this idiocy, it can only make the achievement of high standards more and more difficult.

It would be bad enough even if the clams about the snake oil were based in reality. Given the known problems with provision, the only rational conclusion is that the government are intent on destroying the sector and forcing care responsibility back onto relatives.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

It wasn’t the staff’s fault really. He was in the dementia wing with other demented people (much worse than he was), and that’s what convinced me that dementia is worse than death. The staff were in an impossible situation.
What it’s lime now I really, really can’t bear to imagine.

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago

The owners of care homes will appreciate some free labour. Just as firms appreciate those working-from-home saving on their office costs, all that electricity and water…

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Cashmere
Cashmere
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Just as the councils welcome all the people litter-picking….

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Bobby Lobster
Bobby Lobster
3 years ago

You mean the residents’ families who weren’t allowed to see their loved one’s for 18 months?

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Margaret
Margaret
3 years ago
Reply to  Bobby Lobster

During the first lockdown, the care package providers for my m-i-l told us that if the family continued to visit her at home then they would withdraw the care package for her. This was in spite of the fact that we were following the government guidelines on supporting vulnerable people (and even wearing masks). As a result, we didn’t see my m-i-l for six weeks. The care providers then experienced a staffing problem so we were called in to help put my m-i-l to bed at night. One day we were called to ask if we could help get her up at 7 o’clock the next morning.
It appears that the rules could be ignored when it suited.

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John Drewry
John Drewry
3 years ago

Yes, but if the relatives haven’t been double jabbed themselves, they won’t be able to contribute voluntary care, will they?

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Hester
Hester
3 years ago

Well thats another way of achieving the world Governments aim of reducing the population. Well done to Boris Johnson and all his supporters

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Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
3 years ago

vaccine mandates are irrelevant not least because the vaccines don’t stop people catching and spreading the virus. why not just sanitise the air within the care homes with UV, heat treatment or other within the ventilation ducting – no viral load = no spread

Oh and give the inmates ivermectin or HCQ or whatever protection treatments recommended by real doctors like Kory or McCullough – for more effective than the theatre of ineffective but ”look we are doing something” vax mandates

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Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
3 years ago
Reply to  Major Panic in the jabby jabbys

sanitised air = no/low viral load build up

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  Major Panic in the jabby jabbys

Because more would live?

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brachiopod
brachiopod
3 years ago

This presupposes that the relatives will all be double vaccinated though.

How is that going to work?

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  brachiopod

I bet almost all have been forced into that already.
The huge rise in deaths at home running for many months now suggests
i. More people choosing to die at home of terminal diseases because of the heartless rules in homes and hospices.
ii. More keeping the elderly at home until it is absolutely impossible to continue, or eschewing homes entirely because of heartless rules there.
iii. A possible/probable link to jab linked heart events, mirrored in the rise of ambulance call outs for heart attacks. It is going to be interesting to see what rises in which conditions have happened over the year ending when jabs began.
iv Perhaps suicides, though inquests lag badly and that’s more doubtful.

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Jon Mors
Jon Mors
3 years ago

If the government wanted to help it could offer to pay the heating bills for all care homes, and for all old folks, over the next winter, thus allowing them to keep the windows open to ensure adequate ventilation. But I guess that’s too simple for them.

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Noumenon
Noumenon
3 years ago
Reply to  Jon Mors

Bit of a CO2 emissions dilemma for them there.

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