United Kingdom Tuesday said it would remove Nigeria and 10 other countries from travel red list Wednesday, according to BBC reports.
All the 11 countries on the list would be taken off England’s travel red list from 04:00 GMT on Wednesday, the health secretary announced.
BBC stated that testing measures – a pre-arrival negative test and then another PCR test after arrival – remain in place for all travellers.
It quoted the Deputy Prime Minister, Dominic Raab as saying that people in England would be able to spend Christmas in a way they could not last year because of Plan B restrictions.
BBC also reported that MPs were debating the new measures in the Commons on Tuesday, with a big Tory rebellion expected over Covid passes for some venues.
BBC also reported that in Scotland, people had been asked to limit socialising to three households at a time but this advice would not apply on Christmas day.
It stated that more than half a million people booked booster jabs on Monday and long queues were seen again at some vaccination centres on Tuesday.
On the effect of Omicron, BBC quoted a top South African doctor who said the country was mainly seeing “mild disease” and intensive care units were not overwhelmed.
