{"id":89878,"date":"2021-12-14T17:18:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T16:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=89878"},"modified":"2021-12-14T17:18:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T16:18:50","slug":"breaking-nigeria-10-others-taken-off-uks-omicron-red-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/uncategorized\/breaking-nigeria-10-others-taken-off-uks-omicron-red-list\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Nigeria, 10 others taken off UK\u2019s Omicron red list\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The United Kingdom, UK, has taken all 11 countries off England\u2019s travel red list, the health secretary, Sajid Javid, has announced.<\/p>\n<p>The decision means England will no longer require hotel quarantine for travellers from Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nHowever, testing measures \u2014 a pre-arrival negative test and then another PCR test after arrival \u2014 remain in place for all travellers.<\/p>\n<p>The health secretary has set out in Parliament the rationale for ending the travel red list, saying that as the new variant is spreading in the UK, travel restrictions are \u201cnow less effective in slowing the incursion of Omicron from abroad\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nTravel rules are set by the four nations of the UK independently, but the other nations\u2019 governments often follow proposals from Westminster.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy PM Dominic Raab earlier said people in England will be able to spend Christmas in a way they could not last year because of Plan B restrictions.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nMPs are currently debating the new measures in the Commons, with a big Tory rebellion expected over Covid passes for some venues.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026in South Africa; Nigeria\u2019s threat over ban<\/p>\n<p>A top South African doctor says the country is mainly seeing \u201cmild disease\u201d and intensive care units are not overwhelmed.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nLabour\u2019s shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting, told the Commons sincere beliefs are held on all sides, but he hopes the debate on Plan B measures can be worthy of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>He criticised the comparison by one Tory MP of Covid passes to Nazi Germany\u2019s policies, saying: \u201cWe are not living in the 1930s and the secretary of state and his team are not Nazis.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nStreeting says the health secretary has a responsibility to protect our NHS and calls the measures \u201ca necessary response to the Omicron threat\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But he says that confronting the challenges of this winter has been made much harder \u201cbecause we went into the pandemic with record waiting lists, 100,000 unfilled vacancies in the NHS and shortages of care staff.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister seeks advice \u2018hotel quarantine\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Sajid Javid has told MPs he is seeking \u201curgent advice\u201d about people currently in quarantine hotels being permitted to leave early.<\/p>\n<p>Labour MP Ben Bradshaw asks the health secretary if the government will now release people in isolation in quarantine hotels, given that all 11 African countries are to be removed from the red list.<\/p>\n<p>Javid says: \u201cI am told that the practice in the past has been requiring them to complete their quarantine period. 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