The UK government has disclosed plans to scrap its travel red list this week, according to a Daily Mail report.
The report quoted Grant Shapps, UK transport secretary, as convincing the government that the red list should be replaced with testing for the fully vaccinated.
According to the newspaper, the move is expected to be approved this week.
It noted that at last Wednesday’s COVID briefing, the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, had promised to re-examine the policy amid claims it was unfair and ineffective.
It would be recalled that the UK government’s red list, which contained Nigeria, informed the federal government’s plan to also put on its red list the UK, Canada and Saudi Arabia as a retaliatory measure against those countries.
UK records first death from Omicron variant
Similarly, one person has died of complications arising from the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in the UK.
According to the BBC, Boris Johnson, the prime minister, announced the death yesterday.
Johnson was reported to have said the new variant was also resulting in hospital admissions and that the “best thing” people could do was get their booster jab.
On a visit to a vaccination centre in west London, Johnson said Omicron accounted for about 40 per cent of the cases in the British capital, adding that hospital admissions were rising.
“Sadly, at least one patient has been confirmed to have died with Omicron,” he told reporters, a day after warning the country was facing a “tidal wave” of infection.
