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Travelers arriving in the UK from Slovenia and Guadeloupe after 4am on Saturday will have to isolate themselves for two weeks.
England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are moving in harmony and have added the two countries to each of their quarantine lists.
But anyone who returns from Thailand and Singapore You will no longer be subject to the restrictions. Wales, which removed Singapore from its quarantine list last month, will also remove Gibraltar.
Thailand exits quarantine list
Transportation Secretary Grant Shapps said the changes were necessary to “keep everyone safe.”
He added: “A reminder that travelers to the UK (from ANY location) MUST complete a passenger locator form by law. This is vital to protect public health and ensure that those in need comply with self-isolation rules.”
In Slovenia, COVID-19 the case rate per 100,000 population has increased from 14.4 to 29.1 in the week ending September 16.
And the government said that in Guadeloupe there has been a 558% increase in the same metric during the last three weeks.
Transportation secretary says changes are ‘to keep everyone safe’
The Department of Transportation promised to “take decisive action if necessary to contain the virus, including swift removal of countries from the list of travel corridors if the risk to public health of people returning from a particular country without self-isolation is too tall”.
Ministers say that countries where coronavirus the infection rate is higher than 20 per 100,000 people who are at risk of being added to the list, but last week the UK exceeded that threshold.
Since then, harsh restrictions have been imposed on millions of people.
the the last one will take effect on Friday in Northumberland, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Gateshead, Sunderland and County Durham.
Some travelers are angry and confused by the timing of the ads.
The government of England has tried to be more flexible by taking the lead from Wales and saying it can treat the islands separately from the mainland of a country that is added to the quarantine list.
Continued anger and confusion of tourists when travelers returning from the Balearic and Canary Islands were told to isolate themselves for two weeks along with those returning home from mainland Spain, where a cluster of new cases was largely confined to the northeast.
Last week, it was Portugal and Hungary added to England’s quarantine list.
