Millions of fully vaccinated travellers from Europe and the US will be allowed to enter England without quarantining from next week as part of a significant reopening of the border, it was confirmed today.
Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, said that people inoculated outside the UK would be able to enter from amber destinations from 4am on Monday, August 2.
Travellers will be required to submit a negative coronavirus test before boarding England-bound flights as well as taking a lab-based PCR test within two days of arriving.
It represents an important step towards demolishing travel barriers that have been imposed since the start of this year to prevent coronavirus variants being imported to the UK.
It came as Britain’s week-long fall in cases came to
