Transport secretary Grant Shapps confirmed the move on Thursday (28 October), but said both the red list concept and hotel quarantine measures would be held in reserve and deployed, if necessary, to guard against the import of new variants of Covid-19.
It means from 4am on Monday (1 November), travellers from Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Peru and Venezuela will no longer have to submit to 10 days’ mandatory isolation upon arrival in England.
