The agency consortium commissioned independent consultant Suzanne Lugthart to review the latest Covid-19 variant data to see what impact it has been having on travel.
This research found there were only nine cases of “very high priority” or “high priority” variants of concern or variants under investigation from just three countries – Egypt, India and Mexico – out of 228 destinations in the traffic light system.
These nine cases came from nearly two million international passenger arrivals in the UK since mid-May when international travel became legal again.
