Amber-plus list: Why were extra travel restrictions imposed on France?
By Anthony Reuben
France is being taken off the amber-plus list. This means that, from 8 August, people who arrive in England from France will no longer have to isolate if they have been fully vaccinated.
But there has been criticism of a lack of transparency about the data used to put it on the amber-plus list in the first place.
The government said it had brought in the extra restrictions - from 19 July - because of the persistent presence of cases in France of the Beta variant, which was first identified in South Africa .
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By Chris Morris and Anthony Reuben
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With a week to go until the deadline for EU nationals living in the UK to apply for settled status, it is clear that far more EU citizens have been living in the country than previous estimates suggested.
As of 31 May, the government had received 5.6 million applications for the post-Brexit scheme that allows EU (and EEA) nationals to continue living and working in the UK after the end of this month.
That is far higher than the official estimate when the scheme was fully opened in March 2019 that there were 3.7 million (non-Irish) EU nationals in the country.
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