British holidaymakers have paid hundreds of pounds to return home to avoid quarantine after Croatia, Austria and Trinidad and Tobago were pulled from the safe travel list.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced on Thursday that travellers from those countries to the UK would be required to self-isolate for 14 days with the restrictions coming into effect from Saturday at 4am. Meanwhile, Portugal was given travel corridor status, meaning that Brits will not have to quarantine on their return to the UK from the country.
It comes as Mr Shapps said it would be too "difficult" to implement regional quarantine rules as opposed to removing an entire country from the exemption list. He said it is "still rather too difficult to do the kind of regionalisation that you’re talking about because we just don’t have the same control elsewhere".
Mr Shapps also said that the Government will continue to look into the option of testing at airports. He said it is a "bit more complicated than is sometimes suggested" but the matter is "under consideration".
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