UK To Ease Quarantine Rules...

UK has announced it will lift its two-week coronavirus quarantine rule for visitors arriving from some "low risk" countries.

UK government resolved to amend the quarantine rule after pressure from airlines and the tourism sector.
The government said a list of the countries from where people will be allowed to enter Britain without needing to self-isolate for 14 days, as currently required will be published next week.
With the changes set to take effect on 6 July, "our new risk-assessment system will enable us to carefully open a number of safe travel routes around the world," a UK government spokesman said.


The rules also applied to any Britons who had left the country and were returning.
UK government has faced criticism, and legal challenges, from airlines hard-hit by the pandemic, as well as from others in the travel industry who have argued it will devastate the domestic tourism sector.
Ministers have insisted for weeks they were looking at creating so-called air bridges with countries with low rates of virus transmission.

The government now says it has created a categorisation system for countries based on public health criteria, to determine if they are safe enough to be exempted.
Countries have been categorised as either green, amber and red, depending on their risk assessment.
The list has been informed by factors including the prevalence of the virus, the reliability of data, and "the trajectory of the disease in the country".
Countries in the green and amber categories are deemed low risk enough to receive exemptions.
The government maintains the new measures will be kept under constant review and quarantine rules could be reintroduced for individual countries if their situation changes.
"But we will not hesitate to put on the brakes if any risks re-emerge, and this system will enable us to take swift action to re-introduce self-isolation measures if new outbreaks occur overseas," the spokesman added

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