Hong Kong to ban all passenger flights from the UK as it labels country ‘extremely high risk’

UK travellers banned from Hong Kong this week as ‘extremely high risk’ country

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British travellers will be banned from Hong Kong from Thursday.

The UK will be added to Hong Kong’s list of “extremely high risk” countries.

Passenger flights will be banned from entering the territory from Thursday as the UK faces more travel restrictions.

The law will take effect from July 1 and anyone who has been in Britain for longer than two hours will be restricted from boarding passenger flights bound for Hong Kong.

The move comes days after the city toughened quarantine rules for visitors.

On Sunday, the UK recorded a further 14,876 lab-confirmed Covid-19 cases.

It added a further 11 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Sunday, bringing the UK total to 128,100.

The news comes as British travellers face growing travel restrictions with more countries announcing limitations.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez stated the country will start to demand a negative Covid-19 test or proof of vaccination from British tourists who want to enter Mallorca, Ibiza and the surrounding Balearic islands.

“What we are going to do is apply to British tourists who go to the Balearic islands the same requirements we make of other European citizens,” Mr Sanchez told Cadena SER radio.

The UK will be added to Hong Kong’s list of “extremely high risk” countries (PA Archive)

“They will need a full dose of vaccine or a negative PCR,” he added, referring to a type of test for the coronavirus.

In Portugal, those who are not fully vaccinated against Covid-19 must quarantine for 14 days on arrival.

Anyone travelling to mainland Portugal by air, land or sea, from Monday, will have to confirm they are fully vaccinated at least two weeks ago or have to isolate.

The new rules were introduced by the Portuguese government and will last until at least July 11.

Passenger flights will be banned from entering the nation from Thursday (PA Archive)

They said the decision “may be revised at any time, depending on the evolution of the epidemiological situation”.

Malta has also announced, from Wednesday, only fully-vaccinated travellers will be allowed to enter the country from the UK.

Children under 12 will also be permitted if they are accompanying parents or guardians who have had both doses.

Meanwhile, Germany will on Monday launch an attempt to ban British travellers from the EU- including those who are double jabbed.

German chancellor Angela Merkel previously called for a European Union-wide quarantine on British tourists, with Environment Secretary George Eustice criticising the move as “not justified.”

Ms Merkel wants to designate Britain as a “country of concern” due to the spread of the Delta variant, according to The Times.