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Govt's 'haphazard' travel rules in the firing line and red list to be scrapped?

Government
Rob Gill
13 December 2021

The UK’s red list could be axed later this week and replaced by a testing regime for fully vaccinated people, while travel industry leaders have launched a fresh attack on wha they believe to be the government’s "disproportionate" restrictions.

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Monday’s national headlines, though, are dominated by prime minister Boris Johnson’s pledge on Sunday night (12 December) to offer one million Covid-19 booster jabs per day for the rest of this month.

Meanwhile, workers in England are now officially being asked to work from home, if possible, to stop the spread of Omicron. and elsewhere, US president Joe Biden has promised support for states hit by a series of devastating tornadoes over the weekend.

Here are the key headlines travel woke up to on Monday (13 December).