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Red list rules could be eased later this week after reports that Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has convinced colleagues to ease restrictions on travellers.
A plan is expected to be approved in the coming days and hotel quarantine could be replaced with testing for fully vaccinated travellers, according to the Mail on Sunday.
“There will be changes to the red list and hotel quarantine system later this week, changes which enable the Government to look friendlier towards travel just one week before Christmas,” Paul Charles, chief of travel consultancy The PC Agency, told Telegraph Travel.
He added: “The red list will stay in some form, as the Government relies on it as a safety net to expand at the right moment, but I’m expecting hotel quarantine to be relaxed for UK citizens entering England and possibly all the devolved nations. It will be replaced instead by self-isolation at home which is something that should have been introduced from the beginning.”
During a press conference, when asked whether travellers could instead isolate at home for the required 10 days if fully vaccinated, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: “We will be looking at the red list and the way to do it.”
Eleven countries, including South Africa, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and Namibia have been added to the previously empty hotel quarantine list, with stays costing £2,285 per person.
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