New travel rules have been announced in the government’s latest bid to prevent the spread of the new omicron variant.
Health secretary Sajid Javid announced the new rules on Twitter Saturday night, while also urging people to get the vaccine.
From 4am Monday morning, only UK/Irish citizens and residents travelling from Nigeria, which will be added to the Red List, will be allowed entry and must isolate in a managed quarantine facility.
From 4am Tuesday morning anyone travelling to the UK from countries not on the Red List will be required to take a pre-departure test, regardless of their vaccination status.
Elsewhere, the Metropolitan Police has announced it will “consider” complaints from two Labour MPs that Boris Johnson and his No 10 staff held Christmas parties last November and December, while the rest of the country was in lockdown.
“It is our policy not to routinely investigate retrospective breaches of the Covid-19 regulations; we will however consider the correspondence received,” the force said in a statement.
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