Transport secretary Grant Shapps on Thursday (28 October) confirmed the seven remaining countries on the list – Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Peru and Venezuela – would be removed from 4am on Monday (1 November).
However, the red list and hotel quarantine will not be scrapped altogether, with the system set to be reserved to guard against the import of new variants of Covid-19, although the number of rooms reserved for hotel quarantine has been cut to save taxpayers’ money.
