UK authorities lifts travel ban on 50 countries

UK government has been advising against all but essential travel since March, but this advice has been lifted for destinations that no longer pose an unacceptably high risk for British travelers.

Passengers from more than 50 countries and 14 British overseas territories no longer have to quarantine on arrival in the UK.

Five new countries will be added from 28 July.

They are Slovenia, Slovakia, Latvia, Estonia and St Vincent and the Grenadines.

But national governments have differing assessments of countries deemed safer for travel. Finland, in contrast to Britain, has placed Slovenia on its restricted list from today, and anyone travelling from there to Finland will have self-isolate for a fortnight.