UK government confirms plan to restart international travel
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From 17 May 2021, the UK government will implement a traffic light system, developed by the Global Travel Taskforce, to begin the restart of international travel.
The UK’s Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, announced on 7 May 2021 that international travel can begin to safely reopen from 17 May 2021, allowing people to go on foreign holidays to ‘green list’ countries as part of the UK government’s new travel traffic light system.
The ‘Stay in the UK’ regulation implemented by the government during the third nationwide lockdown in England as a result of a severe increase in COVID-19 cases will lift on 17 May 2021, meaning that leisure travel from England will no longer be illegal. However, the Transport Secretary has outlined how strict border control measures will remain in place as international travel gradually resumes. based on the new traffic light system set out by the Global Travel Taskforce.