It means travellers from Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Peru and Venezuela would no longer have to submit to 10 days’ mandatory isolation upon arrival in England.
Both the BBC and Sky News on Thursday reported the system would not be scrapped and would instead be retained to guard against the import of new variants of Covid-19, if a particular country was deemed to pose a significant variant risk. This was later confirmed by transport secretary Shapps.
Shapps tweeted: "Update: All seven remaining countries on the red list will be removed from Monday 1 November at 4am.
