The Greek islands of Lesvos, Santorini, Serifos, Tinos and Zakynthos have been added to the journey hall listing.
The choice comes following a lower in confirmed instances of coronavirus within the locations, and means friends coming back from the islands to the UK will not must self-isolate for 14-days.
The adjustments come into impact from 04:00 on Saturday morning.
The newest danger evaluation for these Greek islands signifies that the dangers to UK public well being from travellers coming back from these locations has decreased to an appropriate stage.
A spread of things are taken under consideration when deciding so as to add or take away a vacation spot from the exemption listing, together with the continued improve of coronavirus inside an space, the numbers of latest instances, info on testing capability, testing regime and check positivity fee and potential trajectory of the illness within the coming weeks.
On the identical time, the Overseas, Commonwealth & Growth Workplace (FCDO) has additionally up to date its journey recommendation with Lesvos, Santorini, Serifos, Tinos and Zakynthos now exempt from the worldwide advisory in opposition to non-essential journey.
No nations have been faraway from the journey hall listing this week.
