Will any countries go on the red list?
The IndependentSign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “We will keep the red list category in place as a precautionary measure to protect public health and are prepared to add countries and territories back if needed, as the UK’s first line of defence.” This suggests variants of concern have superseded case figures as the main reason a country might be put on the red list. However, analysts noted throughout the “traffic lights” era that the correlation was not always clear between a country’s case figures and whether or not it was on the red list. “But the red list was originally intended to isolate ‘variants of concern’ and at the moment they appear to have been rendered extinct by the all-conquering Delta variant.” On Tuesday, the World Health Organisation reported that the Delta variant now represents 99 per cent of sequenced Covid-19 cases globally, with the strain now present in 104 countries. He said that several hundred hotel rooms would be kept on standby in case hotel quarantine needed to resume for any red list countries, calling it a “prudent” move.
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