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Transport sec promises travel corridor 'certainty' over festive season

Government
James Chapple
17 December 2020

Transport secretary Grant Shapps has promised "certainty" of the government’s travel corridor list over the Christmas and New Year period.

Shapps was transport secretary under Boris Johnson

Shapps said on Thursday (17 December) countries would only be removed from the list in an emergency during the next two weeks.

The next travel corridor update will be on Thursday 7 January.

He additionally announced Uruguay, Namibia and the US Virgin Islands are to be removed from the travel corridor list.

Arrivals from any of the three destinations will have to self-isolate for 10 days as of 4am on Saturday (19 December).

Shapps announced the latest changes to the travel corridor list in a string of tweets posted shortly after 5pm.