You re watching bbc news. The government is relaxing the rules on international travel, so that fully vaccinated people from the us and most eu countries will no longer have to self isolate when they arrive in england. But the changes which will be introduced from 4am on monday morning will not apply to visitors from france. Northern ireland has not yet made a decision. Let s ta ke let s take a closer look out the changes was the government says will help to reunite family and friends who have loved ones abroad. People fully vaccinated from the u or us will not have to. The transport secretary grant shapps said it would apply to people who are fully vaccinated with a jab approved by the u or the us. Travellers esteemed will still need to take either a lateral flow or pcr test before departure and a pcr test on the second day after they arrive. Karen dee is chief executive of the airport 0perators association, which represents uk airports. She welcomed the decision as a small but
It s six in the morning in singapore, and six in the evening in washington where president biden is expected to announce that federal workers will soon be required to confirm they are vaccinated orface more testing. The numbers of coronavirus cases are rising with the director of the us national public health agency. The cdc, saying cases have increased over 300% nationally since mid june. President biden has renewed his call for people to get vaccinated. So many people all over 630,000 americans have lost their lives because of covid 19 will stop and the press keeps wanting me to talk about covid 19 but i m going to mention this one thing, we still have a lot of people not vaccinated. In the pandemic we have now is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. So, please, please, please, if you are not vaccinated, protect yourself and the children out there. It is important. Meanwhile the problem for many countries in asia which are experiencing a surge in coronavirus cases, is that many people j
World heritage status. It s seven in the morning in singapore, and seven in the evening in washington where president biden is expected to announce that federal workers will soon be required to confirm they are vaccinated orface more testing. The numbers of coronavirus cases are rising with the director of the us national public health agency. The cdc, saying cases have increased over 300% nationally since mid june. President biden has renewed his call for people to get vaccinated. So many people, well over 630,000 americans have lost their lives because of covid 19. And the press keeps wanting me not to talk about covid 19 but i m going to mention this one thing, we still have a lot of people not vaccinated. In the pandemic we have now is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. So, please, please, please, if you are not vaccinated, protect yourself and the children out there. It is important. I m joined now by our north america correspondent peter bowes. President biden calling on his peopl