The United Kingdom (UK) says the 11 African countries on its
travel red list will be removed from 4 am on Wednesday, December 15.
The countries on the list are Nigeria, Botswana, Namibia,
South Africa, Angola, Mozambique, Lesotho, Malawi, Zambia, Eswatini, and
Zimbabwe.
The red list was introduced in November following the
emergence of the Omicron COVID-19 variant.
Speaking at the UK parliament on Tuesday, Sajid Javid, UK
health secretary, said the Omicron variant “has spread so widely across the
world,” hence the travel red list is now “less effective”.
He said the Omicron variant had spread so widely that the
rules no longer had much purpose.
“Now that there is community transmission of Omicron in the
UK and Omicron has spread so widely across the world, the travel red list is
now less effective in slowing the incursion of Omicron from abroad,” he told
parliament.
“Whilst we will maintain our temporary testing measures for
international travel we will be removing all 11 countries from the travel red
list effective from 4 am tomorrow.”
The UK government had added Nigeria to the list due to the
discovery of COVID Omicron cases in the country.
Presently, British citizens and residents travelling from
Nigeria to the UK are expected to spend £2,285 on hotel quarantine for ten days
to slow the spread of the Omicron variant.
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