The green list currently only includes 11 countries and territories after Portugal was removed last week due to rising Covid-19 cases.
The travel industry’s hopes that more countries could be added to the green list during the next review, due by 28 June, could be dashed by the government’s “very cautious” approach, according to The Guardian.
Government sources are quoted as saying any changes to the green list would be based “purely on public health considerations”, amid fears about fast-rising cases of the Delta variant, which was first identified in India, and exceeded 11,000 new infections in the UK on Thursday (18 June).
