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LONDON, July 28 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson
said he wants U.S. citizens to come to England "freely" and he
was talking to the United States about a travel corridor, LBC
radio reported on Wednesday.
Britain has stuck to strict COVID-19 travel rules which
airline bosses have blamed for the country falling behind the
European Union in attracting tourists. The EU has opened up more
quickly despite a slower vaccination programme.
But that looks set to change. Johnson's comments to LBC
follow multiple reports that he is set to exempt
double-vaccinated visitors from the EU and the United States
from quarantine in the coming days.
LBC quoted Johnson as saying that he wanted U.S. citizens
who are fully vaccinated to come to Britain as they did before
the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We want people to be able to come from the U.S. freely in a
way that they normally do. We’re talking to them the whole
time," LBC reported Johnson as saying in an interview.
"At the moment we're dealing with a Delta wave, the U.S. is
dealing with a Delta wave, but be assured that we are on it the
whole time. As soon as we have something to say about travel
corridors you’ll be hearing from us."
(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge, writing by Elizabeth Piper;
Editing by Kate Holton and William Schomberg)
