Great Britain, anti-covid measures lightened: the obligation to swab for vaccinated people is no longer required

No more obligation to have a negative anti-Covid test on departure from 4 October for those traveling to or returning to England from Italy as for all the countries included in the intermediate orange (or amber) list established by the legislation on British travel precautions, provided that be doubly vaccinated. This was established by the government of Boris Johnson, thus easing the restrictions on the matter. The announcement was made by the Minister of Transport, Grant Shapps, and also provides for the move from the red list of off-limits countries to the amber list of 8 of the 62 nations considered most at risk so far.

The eight countries that come off the red list of destinations with the highest risk of importing variants of the coronavirus – a list that provides for the de facto travel ban, except for repatriation for which you are still subject to a quarantine at your own expense in supervised hotels – to enter that amber are, again from 4 October: Turkey, Pakistan, Maldives, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Oman, Bangladesh and Kenya. On the other hand, for those traveling from countries on the amber list to England, including Italy, the obligation to book a single test to be performed two days after arrival in the United Kingdom will remain in force. However, from about mid-October, this test should not be of the PCR type, but of the Ltf type: that is a lateral flow test, decidedly less expensive.