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India remains on red list even as UK lifts quarantine for vaccinated EU, US travellers

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Fully vaccinated travellers from the United States and most of Europe will not need to undergo quarantine for Covid-19 in England, The Guardian reported on Wednesday. The changes will be effective from 4 am on August 2.

However, India still remains on the red list. This means that only British or Irish citizens or those who have residence rights in the UK will be allowed to travel from India, and even then, they would have to undergo mandatory quarantine.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said that the policy changes would apply to residents of American and European countries, except France, who have been fully inoculated with a vaccine approved by drug regulators in the US and the European Union.