Amber plus rules for travel to France to be binned within days
Ministers are still trying to persuade the US to open up its borders to us — as double-jabbed visitors from the States are now free to come here.
The Sun understands that the extra category for France is set for the axe within days — if Beta variant cases continue to fall there. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps insisted yesterday that the concerns over the Beta variant were based on cases in mainland France, not the tiny department of Reunion island in the Indian Ocean.Mr Shapps added: “The Beta variant, it’s not just — as has been reported — on an island thousands of miles away.
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