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Breaking News: The Travel Red List is scrapped
All countries to be removed from Red List & no hotel quarantine required
The transport secretary, Grant Shapps, has confirmed that the last remaining 11 countries on England's travel Red List will be removed at 04:00am TOMORROW (Wednesday 15th December).
The 11 countries currently on the red list are: Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Travellers returning from these countries will no longer have to quarantine in a hotel.
Grant Shapps tweeted "From 4am on Weds 15 Dec, ALL 11 countries will be removed from England's travel red list."
"All current TESTING measures remain in place & will be reviewed in the first week of January."
"As always, we keep all our travel measures under review and we may impose new restrictions should there be a need to do so to protect public health."
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