Travellers from, or who travelled through, countries on the red list are required to quarantine at their own expense before being permitted entry into the UK.
The department of international relations and cooperation says it will intensify its efforts to get SA off the UK's red list.Information provided by SA scientists to their UK counterparts will be factored into the latter country's decision-making on whether to keep SA on its travel “red list”.
In a statement, the health department confirmed that SA scientists met their UK counterparts on Monday “to discuss the latest trends around Covid-19, respective Covid-19 testing strategies, and the prevalence and risk posed to our vaccination programmes by variants of concern”.
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