Alex McCurthy
Grant Shapps tweeted: “All seven remaining countries on the red list will be REMOVED from Mon 1 November at 4am.”
However he added that the UK will “keep the red list category in place as a precautionary measure to protect public health” and said the government is “prepared to add countries and territories back if needed, as the UK’s first line of defence.”
The 7 countries that were formerly graded red – Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Peru and Venezuela – have all been added to the Rest of World list, meaning travelers fully vaccinated in a country whose vaccines are recognized by the Department for Transport need not quarantine on arrival here.
