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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has sunk, rather like his grandiose Thames Estuary Airport scheme.
UK scraps mandatory pre-departure Covid-19 tests to enter England
Boris Johnson has confirmed that pre-departure travel Covid-19 tests to enter England from overseas will be scrapped from 7 January
UK reinitiates pre-departure Covid-19 testing
All UK arrivals must once again show proof of a negative PCR or lateral flow test before they will be permitted entry and the test must be taken no earlier than 48 hours before departure
UK adds ten countries to red list
England has added ten southern African countries to their red list and will require all arrivals to do a day 2 PCR test and self-isolate until they have got a negative result
UK could scrap hotel quarantine for some travellers
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will open up more countries for hotel quarantine-free travel later this week and the UK’s ‘red list’ of destinations would be slashed to nine from 54
No vaccine passports: UK PM to set out Covid-19 plan for winter
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will this week set out his plans to manage the Covid-19 pandemic in the winter months, announcing a decision to scrap the introduction of vaccine passports
Urgent need to get travel industry moving again, says Boris Johnson
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he wants to get travel industry moving again with user-friendly system of rules for trips abroad
Johnson announces plan for reopening in England from 19 July
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that people in England will no longer be legally required to wear a face-covering and that all Covid-19 social distancing rules will be repealed on July 19th.
UK PM confirms reopening of restaurants but foreign travel still on hold
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed pubs and restaurants could reopen to serve outdoors in a week’s time, as Covid restrictions are lifted
Delaying return of international travel until May could be fatal blow for UK’s ailing travel sector
Delaying the return of international travel until at least mid-May could mean the tourism sector simply will not survive, says WTTC
UK bans international travel until 17 May
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a ban on non-essential international travel from and to the country till at least 17 May
UK travel corridor system to be suspended from 18 Jan
British prime minister, Boris Johnson, has announced the UK will close all travel corridors to protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new Covid-19 strains
Brits’ Christmas travel halted as new coronavirus ‘out of control’ in the UK
Several countries have isolated the United Kingdom banning arrivals from the UK.
Travel ban bites: Countries that have blocked travel from UK due to new Covid strain
Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium are all halting flights after UK reported a more-infectious and ‘out of control’ coronavirus variant this weekend
UK reduces quarantine policy to five days for holiday travel during Christmas
Travellers arriving in the UK now will be able to reduce their self-isolation period from 14 to five days starting next month if they test negative for the coronavirus
France, the Netherlands, Monaco, Malta, Turks & Caicos and Aruba removed from UK’s safe travel list
Transport secretary Grant Shapps has announced six more countries that have been added to the UK’s travel quarantine list.
WTTC calls for leadership from PM Boris Johnson and strong international coordination to save travel sector
World Travel & Tourism Council has urgently called on the UK government for strong leadership and unprecedented international collaboration, to save the struggling travel and tourism sector and recover the millions of jobs already affected
British Prime Minister on Convid-19
“It will soon be the time when we will quarantine people coming into the country by air.” The words of Boris Johnson Prime Minster speaking to the nation last night, Business Travel News London reports.
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