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Dayna McAlpine

Red list: Destinations expected to move from amber list after update

Two popular holiday destinations could move to the UK's red travel list due to soaring coronavirus cases.

A travel update is expected from the UK Government either today or tomorrow and both the Caribbean Islands and the Balkans could be switched to the no-travel zone.

According to travel experts, both holiday locations have seen a huge surge in Covid cases causing their spot on the amber travel list to be at risk.

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Travel expert and journalist Tim White told Sky News how there has been a big spike in the number of people arriving from Jamaica with confirmed COVID-19.

However, Mr White said that the UK's transport secretary "would effectively be admitting a mistake three weeks ago" if he moved Jamaica to the red list - and might not do so for that reason.

Meanwhile Grenada could become the first country to go directly from green to red because of an "astonishing" spread of COVID-19 on the small Caribbean island.

On the subject of the Balkans, he said: "Albania had one of the highest rates of infected arrivals in the most recent NHS results, but rates there seem low enough to keep it amber.

"Serbia has the strongest sustained COVID-19 growth in Europe right now, but levels are still below Montenegro when I warned it may go red three weeks ago."

"Serbia's vaccination rate is also better, so I think it avoids red too.

"Kosovo should already be red, but its fate could be linked with Serbia and seems set to survive again."

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