{"id":22339,"date":"2021-09-17T21:46:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T16:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=22339"},"modified":"2021-09-17T21:47:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T16:47:22","slug":"uks-decides-to-remove-pakistan-from-travel-red-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/22339","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s decides to remove Pakistan from travel red list."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Web desk,<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">UK Secretary of State for Transport Rt Hon Grant Shapps said on Friday that Pakistan will finally be removed from the United Kingdom&#8217;s red list on September 22 (Wednesday).<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Oman, Bangladesh, Kenya, Turkey, Egypt, and the Maldives are among the eight countries that are set to be removed from England&#8217;s red list, according to the British official.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TRAVEL UPDATE\ud83d\udd0a: we\u2019re making testing easier for travel \ud83e\uddf3\ud83d\udc89 From Mon 4 Oct, if you\u2019re fully vax you won\u2019t need a pre-departure test before arrival into England from a non-red country and from later in Oct, will be able to replace the day 2 PCR test with a cheaper lateral flow.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps (@grantshapps) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/grantshapps\/status\/1438890006437847043?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In August, the UK retained Pakistan on its red list, as the country failed to meet the requirements on genomic surveillance capability, transmission risk, and variants of concern.<\/p>\n<p>Providing further updates on travel restrictions, the British official said the government was making coronavirus testing easier for travel from October 4.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you\u2019re fully vaccinated you won\u2019t need a pre-departure test before arrival into England from a non-red country and from later in Oct, will be able to replace the day 2 PCR test with a cheaper lateral flow,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ll also be introducing a new simplified system for international travel from Mon 4 Oct, replacing the current approach with a single red list and simplified measures for the rest of the world striking the right balance to manage the public health risk as No.1 priority,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Back in April, the UK\u00a0 government had announced adding Pakistan to its red list as the coronavirus cases surged due to the Delta variant which was first identified in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web desk, UK Secretary of State for Transport Rt Hon Grant Shapps said on Friday that Pakistan will finally be removed from the United Kingdom&#8217;s red list on September 22 (Wednesday). Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Oman, Bangladesh, Kenya, Turkey, Egypt, and the Maldives are among the eight countries that are set to be removed from England&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,31,32,1416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","category-pakistan","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22341,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22339\/revisions\/22341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}