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LONDON: Singapore and Thailand have joined the LIST of COVID-19 corridors for England and Scotland, the UK government revealed on Thursday (17 September).
From 4 a. m. UK time on Saturday, travellers from those countries will no longer have to isolate themselves for two weeks when they arrive in England and Scotland.
The exemption announced on the UK government portal, as well as on the official website of the Scottish Government.
The exemption applies to travellers from Singapore and Thailand as long as they have been or have transited through any other non-exempt country in the last 14 days, said the Department of Transport and the Office of Foreign Affairs, Commonwealth and Development (FCDO). .
Singapore and Thailand had already been exempt from the GENERAL opinion of the FCDO on non-essential travel.
Singapore has recently had cross-border agreements with China, Malaysia, Brunei, South Korea and Japan, while talks are underway to identify such agreements with Hong Kong, Thailand and Indonesia.
On Thursday, Singapore recorded its lowest number of COVID-19s in six months with 18 infections.
The British government also announced that Slovenia and Guadeloupe had been removed from the list of exemptions after weekly case rates increased by 102% and 558% respectively. Travelers arriving in England from those places after 4 a. m. Weeks.
“The government has made it transparent that it will take decisive action if it is mandatory to involve the virus, adding the immediate elimination of countries from the list of travel corridors if the threat to public fitness of other people returning from a specific country without self-relaxation becomes too high,” I said.
The UK is the country hardest hit in Europe by the pandemic, with the government recording nearly 42,000 deaths.
The Office of National Statistics, which uses broader criteria for COVID-19 deaths, said more than 58,000 Britons had died from the virus.
On Monday, the government imposed new regulations in England to restrict socialization to teams of six or less, as instances succeed to degrees not noticed since early May.
According to government statistics, a total of 18,371 other people tested positive in England in the week of September 19, an increase of 75% over the past week.
NEW SOCIAL RESTRICTIONS IN THE NORTH-EAST OF ENGLAND
More than two million people in north-east England face new restrictions due to the accumulation of coronavirus cases, the government announced Thursday as it struggled to involve a possible wave of infection.
The toughest socialization will take effect from Friday in Northumberland, North and South Tyneside, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Gateshead and County Durham.
Residents will be prohibited from socializing in houses or gardens with others from outside their homes, while places for dinner will be limited to table-only service.
Pubs and bars should do it early before 10 p. m.
“We don’t make those decisions lightly,” Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Parliament, acknowledging that they would have “a genuine effect on families, businesses and communities. “
But he added: “We have to know and act, and knowledge says we have to act now. “
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