Coronavirus: UK lifts quarantine restrictions for US, EU travellers, India still on red list

Fully vaccinated travellers from the United States and most of Europe will not need to undergo quarantine for Covid-19 in England, The Guardian reported on Wednesday. The changes will be effective from 4 am on August 2.

However, India still remains on the red list. This means that only British or Irish citizens or those who have residence rights in the UK will be allowed to travel from India, and even then, they would have to undergo mandatory quarantine.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said that the policy changes would apply to residents of American and European countries, except France, who have been fully inoculated with a vaccine approved by drug regulators in the US and the European Union.

Residents of Europe would have to produce a digital Covid-19 certificate while those from the US will need to show a paper card that they have been fully vaccinated.

Shapps said that the travellers should have got their final dose of the vaccine at least 14 days before their arrival, reported BBC. Travellers will also have to take a polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, test before departure or on the second day of their arrival to the UK.

Those under 18 years will not need to be vaccinated. Some of them will also not…

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