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Dan Bloom & Flaminia Luck

UK travel list changes confirmed as Canada and the Azores added to green list

The Azores, Switzerland, and Canada are among seven locations being added to the Government's green travel list.

Denmark, Finland, Liechtenstein and Lithuania are also being moved to the list.

The decision means all travellers arriving in England from those locations will be exempt from quarantine requirements.

READ MORE: Live updates as seven countries added to green travel list

Thailand and Montenegro are being added to the red travel list, meaning arrivals must enter a quarantine hotel.

The changes will be implemented from 4am on Monday.

Identical changes have been announced by the Scottish and Northern Ireland administrations.

The Welsh Government has not yet confirmed whether it will make the same move.

The Azores are a Portuguese archipelago in the mid-Atlantic.

Travel lists, which determine the quarantine and testing requirements for people arriving in the UK, are updated every three weeks.

Many popular tourist destinations such as Spain, France and Greece are on the amber list, which means returning travellers who are not fully vaccinated must self-isolate at home for 10 days, take one pre-departure test and two post-arrival test.

Fully-vaccinated travellers are exempt from quarantine, but must still take one pre-departure test and one post-arrival test.

A spokesman for Airlines UK, the industry body representing UK-registered carriers, said the "small number of green destinations" is making international travel from the UK "more expensive, burdensome and uncertain compared to our neighbours".

He went on: "Too many families are having to look over their shoulders for rule changes and pay through the nose for tests, with no sign from Government that this will change.

"As has already happened across Europe, it's time for a more proportionate system where tests are dropped for the fully-vaccinated and from destinations where Covid risks are low, with tougher measures targeted at a small number of high risk countries."

Labour's shadow transport secretary Jim McMahon warned that "any loosening of restrictions carries with it risks, particularly from variants that could undermine the progress we have made on vaccines".

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