LONDON: England opened its borders for tourists who were fully vaccinated from the US and the European Union on Monday as travel industry leaders urged the government to make it easier for people to enable people to enjoy the benefits of a successful covid-19 inoculation program.
New rules began to apply in the middle of a report that Prime Minister Boris Johnson could add a new category to the British traffic light system from travel restrictions, moving industrial officials would make many people decide to stay at home.
On Monday, tourists who are fully vaccinated from the purpose of the “list of Amber” are permitted to enter the country without isolating themselves up to 10 days.
The government is considering making a yellow monitoring list to warn people about the purpose that can be reduced because of the increasing level of infection or the emergence of a new variant.
“List of yellow supervisors will be seen as a large red flag, which tend to cause reservations to countries on the monitoring list to collapse,” Huw Merriman, Chair of the House of Commons Transportation Committee, told the BBC.
“In my view, we do not need uncertainty, complexity, or anxiety for this tour or surrounded sector.
It only needs clarity.” British Airlines and Holiday companies hope to boom the final summer trip after the pandemic stops most international trips, cutting profits and threatening thousands of jobs.
The number of passengers traveling through London Heathrow Airport, the British busiest airport, fell 75% in the first half of this year.
David and Susan Handfield were one of the first beneficiaries of new travel rules Monday, seeing their grandson Charlotta for the first time after her and her parents stepped over flights from Berlin.
Charlotta was born in February but the worries of the virus and restrictions on the trips prevented their parents take her to London until now.
His grandmother greeted him with a fine kiss to the forehead at Heathrow Airport.
“We’ve been waiting now for a long time,” said Susan Handfield, 70.
“We only heard a week ago they booked a flight.” While hand fields benefit from changes in rules, other limits still prevent many people fly.
Tourists are required to take expensive PCR tests to prove that they are free viruses and countries including A.S.
Still bar tourists from their border intersections.
John Holland-Kaye, Head of the Executive Heathrow, said the British government must allow most tourists to use cheaper lateral flow tests and work with countries such as the US to reduce restrictions on the remaining trips.
It is guaranteed by a successful vaccination program U.K., he said.
Nearly 89% of adults in the UK have received at least one dose of vaccines and 73% have been fully vaccinated.
“This is a good start, we show that vaccines are our passports for freedom,” Holland-kaye said.
“Let’s confidence in the vaccine.
The test shows that they work against the Delta and Beta variants.
So let’s start showing vaccination will bring us back to our lives as before.”