Grant Shapps today revealed that Britons who want to travel abroad in the next year are going to need a third Covid jab.
According to the Transport Secretary, countries like France, Italy and USA, which are all very popular among millions of tourists from the UK, will likely make this a requirement for entry in 2022.
Ministers say that the booster jab will soon be a requirement for all domestic vaccinations to be considered fully-vaccinated in Britain. They also expect it to be made mandatory by law.
Mr Shapps told Sky News this morning: ‘I speak to my opposite numbers in other countries – transport secretaries from around the world – particularly from the G7 this year, which we are hosting.
They are saying “Look, we’re going switch to requiring people have the third jab” before they’re allowed to enter their countries. It becomes so inevitable that other countries will also require it.
“I don’t know when that will happen – but not this year.
According to the Transport Secretary, countries like France, Italy and USA, which are all very popular among millions of tourists from the UK, will likely make this a requirement for entry in 2022.
Nations like the Philippines, which is shown here (pictured), have made foreign travel difficult.
Angola. Botswana. Eswatini. Lesotho. Malawi. Mozambique. Namibia. South Africa. Zambia.
Last night Sajid Javid today confirmed all countries will be removed from the Government’s international travel red list from 4am today because the Omicron variant is already running rampant in the UK.
According to the Health Secretary, the House of Commons was informed that there has been a domestic transmission of this variant as well as widespread spread ‘widely throughout the globe’.
He stated, “Now less effective in slowing Omicron’s incursion from abroad,” and that hotel quarantine would be cancelled.
Angola. Botswana. Eswatini. Lesotho. Malawi. Mozambique. Namibia. Nigeria. South Africa. Zambia.
This decision was made at the Cabinet’s Covid-19 operations Committee (Covid O) meeting.
The red list was reintroduced last month following the emergence of Omicron as ministers tried to prevent importing cases into the UK.
The red list will be updated, but stricter rules for travel testing that were established in response to this variant will still apply.