Individuals arriving within the UK from the Canary Islands might want to self-isolate for 2 weeks following a call to take away the vacation spot from the journey protected checklist.
The brand new guidelines will come into impact from 04:00 tomorrow morning.
The choice to take away the highest vacation spot from the checklist of journey corridors was been based mostly on a pointy improve in take a look at positivity, at present at 7.1 per cent for the Canaries collectively and eight.eight per cent for the island of Tenerife.
The Canary Islands had been solely added to the journey protected checklist in October.
Nevertheless, from December 15th, passengers arriving in England from international locations not featured on the journey hall checklist – together with the Canary Islands – can have the choice to take a take a look at from a personal supplier after 5 days of self-isolation.
In the event that they return a detrimental outcome, they are going to be launched from the necessity to self-isolate.
Additionally right this moment, Saudi Arabia and Botswana have been added to the journey hall checklist following in-depth evaluation of the coronavirus epidemic in these international locations.
From tomorrow, passengers arriving to England from these locations will now not must self-isolate as long as they haven’t been in or transited by another non-exempt international locations within the 14-days previous their arrival.
Individuals at present within the Canary Islands are inspired to observe the native guidelines and test FCDO journey recommendation for additional data.
The federal government is urging employers to be understanding of these getting back from these locations who now might want to self-isolate.
