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Johnson ducks question on changes to Covid travel rules

Government
James Chapple
14 September 2021

Boris Johnson has declined to detail the government’s plans to ease the UK’s Covid travel rules, and reiterated health secretary Sajid Javid’s assertion earlier on Tuesday that an update would follow in the coming weeks.

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Addressing the nation at a 10 Downing Street briefing on Tuesday (14 September), Johnson confirmed the traffic light system would be changed and the burden of testing eased, but offered no further detail.

Taking questions from the public, Kirstie from Leeds asked the prime minister when the government’s "strict travel rules" would be further eased for the fully vaccinated, and whether ministers would clear up the confusion about how countries are classified under the traffic light system.