London, Europe Brief News – The UK authorities confirmed that all remaining Covid travel measures will be scrapped this Friday.
Currently, everyone travelling to the UK must complete a passenger locator form before they arrive.
Travellers who did not receive full vaccination have to take Covid test before departure and book for PCR test.
UK Transport Minister Grant Shapps confirmed in a tweet that these rules will end at 04:00 on Friday.
His announcement means that passengers who are not fully vaccinated will no longer have to take Covid tests. The passenger locator form will no longer be necessary either.
People planning an overseas trip will still need to be aware of other countries’ entry rules.
Mr Shapps tweeted: “These changes are possible due to our vaccine rollout and mean greater freedom in time for Easter.”
When any new Covid strains appear in the future, the government said its default approach would be to use “the least-stringent measures” for restricting travel.
It said the UKHSA would closely monitor the prevalence and spread of Covid variants.
Freedom Is Back
The UK government has earlier announced they will uplift all the domestic Covid-19 restrictions to provide people their freedom back.
The government believes that now it’s our responsibility as individuals to look after ourselves.
The legal requirement to isolate for at least 5 days after a positive covid-19 test.
Since the covid has become endemic, the doctors will treat the coronavirus just like another flu.
Boris Johnson said, “ Covid will not suddenly disappear, and we need to learn to live with this virus and continue to protect ourselves without restricting our freedom”.
This Announcement will surely please the conservative party lawmakers as they have been criticising the government that the restrictions were ineffective and disproportionate.
On the other hand, scientists are coming up with different theories as covid upcoming viruses can be even more lethal than the current ones.
Matthew Taylor, Chief executive of the NHS confederation said “ This is not the time to take risks”.
