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Folks arriving into the UK from Belgium, the Bahamas and Andorra must quarantine for 14 days.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps mentioned the adjustments begin at 04:00 BST on Saturday besides in Wales, the place they begin midnight Thursday.
The nations are the newest to have a change in guidelines, after quarantines have been reimposed for Spain and Luxembourg.
However travellers from Brunei and Malaysia arriving in England and Wales will now not must self-isolate.
The transport secretary has beforehand mentioned he “can’t rule out” different nations being included on the checklist because the journey recommendation is saved beneath evaluate.
Individuals who don’t self-isolate when required might be fined as much as £1,000 in England, Wales, and Northern Eire and people returning to Scotland may very well be fined £480, with fines as much as £5,000 for persistent offenders.
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As much as 1.eight million British nationals go to Belgium yearly, whereas 150,000 go to Andorra. The Bahamas, in the meantime, noticed greater than 36,000 visits from the UK in 2018.
In keeping with figures on Thursday, Belgium has a charge of 49.2 new circumstances per 100,000 folks, above the UK’s newest charge of 14.3. For comparability, Spain’s charge was 27.four across the time it was faraway from the UK’s journey hall checklist.
Final week, Belgium launched new restrictions which imply that individuals can solely meet the identical 5 folks exterior their family in a month.
In the meantime, Belgium’s neighbour, France, can be seeing a surge in circumstances.
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Mr Shapps tweeted: “Information reveals we have to take away Andorra, Belgium and the Bahamas from our checklist of [coronavirus] journey corridors to be able to maintain an infection charges DOWN.
“In the event you arrive within the UK after 0400 Saturday from these locations, you have to to self-isolate for 14 days.”
Scottish Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf mentioned the governments of all 4 UK nations agreed to the adjustments “primarily based on a shared understanding of the info”.
“Imposing quarantine necessities on these arriving from one other nation just isn’t a choice made frivolously – however suppressing the virus and defending public well being stays our precedence,” he mentioned.
The UK launched the obligatory 14-day quarantine for arrivals from abroad in early June.
However the next month, the 4 UK nations unveiled lists of “journey corridors”, dozens of nations which have been exempt from the rule, together with France, Italy and Germany.
Since then, just a few extra nations have been added however Spain and Luxembourg have been eliminated.
It comes as figures confirmed that demand for the Eurotunnel – which takes folks between the UK and France with their automobiles – is recovering to pre-coronavirus ranges faster than air journey.
The tunnel’s passenger numbers have been down 21% in July in comparison with July final 12 months – whereas the UK’s greatest airways are working at lower than half their capacities final month.
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