The UK is set to close all travel corridors from Monday to “protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new Covid strains”.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered from 4am on Monday, 18 to protect the UK against new coronavirus strains, ending the quarantine exemption for arrivals from selected nations.
Mr Johnson said: “Yesterday we announced that we’re banning flights from South America and Portugal and to protect us against the risk from as-yet-unidentified strains we will also temporarily close all travel corridors from 4am on Monday.
“Following conversations with the devolved administrations, we will act together so this applies across the whole of the UK.”
This means that passengers travelling to Scotland from outside the UK will be required to isolate for ten days on return.
Passengers must also have a valid negative Covid test result, which was taken no more than three days before the scheduled time of departure.
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