It means the FCDO is no longer advising against all but essential travel to Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Peru and Venezuela on Covid grounds.
It brings the FCDO advice in line with the stance set out by the UK government last week, when it confirmed the seven remaining countries on the red list would be removed.
The red list and hotel quarantine will be retained, though, to be deployed in the event the government feels it needs to guard against the threat posed by new variants of Covid-19 from a specific country.
It unlocks popular destinations such as Peru and the Dominican Republic to for the first time for many months, with the majority of Latin America having been off limits since the red list was introduced.
The change in FCDO advice is important as an “against all but essential travel” advisory tends to be the trigger to invalidate travellers’ insurance policies, and for operators to stop offering travel to a certain country.
