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Bulgaria and Hong Kong to join green list

Government
Tom Parry
14 July 2021

Bulgaria and Hong Kong will be added to England’s green travel list next week, while Croatia and Taiwan will move to the “green watchlist”. 

Brits will be able to travel to the Bulgarina resort of Sunny Beach without isolating on their return from next week

Bourgas serves the resort of Sunny Beach

Transport secretary Grant Shapps confirmed the update to the government’s traffic light system on Wednesday evening (14 July).

Changes will take effect from 4am on Monday (19 July). 

https://twitter.com/grantshapps/status/1415352664603385867

Also announced was the relegation of the Balearic Islands to the amber list - which the Department for Transport said had been done "due to a sharp rise in the number of cases".