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UK TRAVEL LIST UPDATE: FRANCE MOVES TO AMBER AND PCR ADVISED FOR SPAIN, 7 COUNTRIES ADDED TO GREEN LIST\\r\\nSeven more countries have been added to the UK government’s green travel list. From 4am on Sunday, anyone returning from Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Slovakia, Latvia, Romania and Norway will no longer need to quarantine on arrival.\\r\\nThere are now 36 countries on the green list – but 16 of them, including Caribbean islands, Croatia, Malta, Israel and Taiwan are on the “green watchlist”, meaning they could be suddenly be moved to amber.\\r\\nAustralia and New Zealand are both green – but neither are currently welcoming British travellers.\\r\\nFrance has also lost its confusing “amber plus” status, which had meant that all travellers and not just those who are not fully vaccinated had to self-isolate for 10 days upon return. It was the only country in that category.\\r\\nIndia, Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have been downgraded from the red to the amber list, meaning arrivals will no longer have to spend 11 nights in a quarantine hotel.\\r\\nMexico, Georgia and the French overseas territories of La Reunion and Mayotte are joining the red list.\\r\\nThe government has also hiked the price of hotel quarantine required on return from a red list country. It will be increased from £1,750 to £2,285 from 12 August. The charge for an adult sharing a room will increase from £650 to £1,430.\\r\\nDespite prior speculation, Spain will remain on the amber list, enabling travellers who are fully vaccinated to continue to enjoy a quarantine-free return. There were fears in the travel industry that Spain could be added to the red list.\\r\\nPM Boris Johnson said earlier this week that he wanted to keep a “simple”, “user-friendly” system for foreign travel.\\r\\n\\r\\n

International cruises will be able to start again from England after a 16-month break. People arriving at UK ports who have been fully vaccinated in the US and the EU will also not have to quarantine, the UK government said. It is part of a plan to relax isolation rules for US and EU arrivals in the UK.\\r\\n

International cruises will be able to start again from England after a 16-month break. People arriving at UK ports who have been fully vaccinated in the US and the EU will also not have to quarantine, the UK government said. It is part of a plan to relax isolation rules for US and EU arrivals in the UK. An industry body said travel agencies, hotels, tour guides, port operators and other firms would benefit from cruises restarting.\\r\\n

Health ministers from Germany‘s states have agreed to require people returning from high-risk countries to take a coronavirus test at the airport or face two weeks’ quarantine as part of efforts to prevent a new wave of infections.

Holiday resorts across Spain are seeing coronavirus cases rise again following the return of British tourists, with Tui, Europe’s largest tour operator, warning that it could cancel holiday packages if the situation worsens.\\r\\n\\r\\nTui has said that it will not take customers on holiday if it cannot guarantee their safety, or if the Spanish government reimposes a 14-day quarantine for UK arrivals.

Britain is to maintain its travel ban on Portugal, forcing UK holidaymakers to quarantine for 14 days on their return.\\r\\n\\r\\nGrant Shapps, the Transport Secretary, announced on Friday that the Government has rejected Portugal’s bid to be added to a “safe” list of 74 countries and territories exempt from UK quarantine.\\r\\n\\r\\nSpain remains on the list despite, like Portugal, having faced a surge in Covid-19 outbreaks that have forced regional authorities to reintroduce local restrictions.

Norway will reimpose a 10-day quarantine on all international arrivals from Spain from Saturday after a surge in infections, while it will ease restrictions on people coming from more counties of Sweden, the government said on Friday.

Efforts to reopen universities in the midst of the pandemic appeared to be unravelling tonight, as three of the country’s largest universities called a halt to face-to-face teaching. More than 80 universities in the UK have reported at least 5,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 among students and staff, including more than 1,000 at the University of Manchester , which announced that it was suspending in-person teaching. It came as 14,542 new cases were confirmed across the UK on Tuesday, up 2,000 on the previous day. Seventy-six COVID patients were confirmed to have died and 2,833 were in hospital with the virus.

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Spain will be ready to welcome back tourists in June, the country’s tourism minister has said. The European Union has previously set out plans for coronavirus vaccine certificates that could be used by UK holidaymakers this summer. Digital Green Certificates will be accepted as “proof” a person had a Covid-19 jab, received a negative test result or recovered from the virus, according to the European Commission’s proposal. And Spain says a digital certificate scheme is currently being trialled with a view to a wider rollout in June. Spain’s tourism minister Fernando Valdes Verelst told a travel and tourism conference in Mexico: “I think the best thing that Governments right now can provide to travelers is certainty, give the proper information and the security that they can travel and they can come back to the countries. “In those terms, in the European Union, we put in place a system … that provides us with digital certificate. “Spain is going to be ready in June to use this digital certificate. We are doing a pilot programme in May, in all our 46 airports. “We are going to give all these travelers that certainty. Spain is going to be ready in June to tell all travelers worldwide that you can visit us.”