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Foreign Office quashes prospect of alignment with traffic lights

Government
Rob Gill
24 September 2021

The Foreign Office has confirmed that its travel advice will remain “independent” of decisions made about a country’s red list status, quashing the travel trade’s hopes of alignment between the two.

The Maldives is off the red list but the FCDO is still advising against travel to the destination based on Covid risks (Mohamed Lammah / Unsplash) mohamed-lammah-dMT__V1a7aU-unsplash.jpg

Five countries, including Egypt, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, which were moved from the UK government’s red list earlier this week are still effectively off the travel list after the FCDO maintained its advice against all non-essential travel due to Covid-19 reasons.