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Mainland Greece removed from travel corridor list with Iceland and UAE among new additions

The whole of mainland Greece has been removed from the UK’s travel corridor list, the government has confirmed.

This implies anybody arriving into the nation from Greece from 4 am on Saturday might be required to quarantine for 2 weeks.

Nevertheless, it doesn’t embrace arrivals from Corfu, Crete, Rhodes, Zakynthos, and Kos, which can all stay on the hall record.

Making the announcement on Thursday, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps additionally confirmed that the present journey ban to Denmark can be prolonged for one more 14 days.

Iceland and the United Arab Emirates, in the meantime, are among the many records of countries to be added again to the protected record, additionally from four am on Saturday.

The total record consists of Bahrain, Chile, Iceland, Cambodia, Laos, UAE, Qatar, and the Turks & Caicos Islands.

Mr. Shapps then used he replace to remind folks in England of the present lockdown measures, which stipulate that no journey needs to be taken exterior of the house, aside from a really restricted variety of exceptions.

It comes because the UK recorded one other 33,470 coronavirus instances on Friday – the best ever day by day enhance.

That is in comparison with the 22,950 instances recorded within the 24 hours prior and brings the entire variety of instances to 1,290,195.

The day by day variety of deaths has not but been launched; nonetheless, the UK grew to become the primary nation within the EU to surpass the grim milestone of 50,000 deaths on Wednesday.