The transport secretary has confirmed that the US is still on track to lift its travel ban on the UK in early November.
Speaking to Times Radio, transport secretary Grant Shapps said: “It’s not that they don’t want to do it. It’s actually that in many ways they don’t have the kind of level of sophistication in place on international travel that has become normal to us.
“For example, they don’t actually have a Covid certification like the NHS app, it’s a piece of paper. So you might say well, why does that matter to Brits going over there? Well again, they just don’t have a system set up to read the NHS barcode or to be able to recognise other people’s tests.
“So all of that is being worked through. They are still saying early November.”
The news comes as yesterday’s travel update confirmed that 47 countries will leave the UK red list from Monday, which is currently 54 countries strong.
The countries left on the red list from 4am on 11 October will be Colombia, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Panama, Peru and Venezuela.
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