Boris pours cold water on adding more countries to green list this week
confirmed he's looking at replacing the mandatory 10-day self-isolation period with daily testing instead.
"We've talked a lot to countries like Israel who are ahead of us in the vaccination campaign, and they are now really looking at allowing people to come into their country who've had two vaccines and not needing to isolate."We will need to be alert and will need to consider how we can measure the response of these vaccines to new variants that come along.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme: "It's going up, perhaps we can be a little bit optimistic it's not going up any faster, but nevertheless it's going up, so this third wave is definitely underway."If passengers leave the quarantine hotel before their 10 days are up, theyAnd people travelling to the UK from amber list countries have to quarantine for 10 days at home.will also need a pre-arrival Covid test, as well as tests on day two and day eight of quarantine.
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