England's travel red list has been removed.
Now, all fully vaccinated travellers arriving in England will be able to isolate at home instead of so-called 'quarantine hotels'. And if they test negative on a PCR test after two days they will be permitted to leave isolation.
The red list was put in place to slow down the spread of the omicron Covid-19 variant, after its emergence in Southern African countries.
Despite the government's efforts, the variant is now widespread in England with around a third of all cases in London attributed to Omicron.
And because of that Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said that continuing the red list restrictions didn't make sense anymore.
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