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LONDON, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Britain will remove next week the
last seven countries on its coronavirus "red list", which
currently requires newly arrived travellers from these
destinations to spend 10 days in hotel quarantine, transport
minister Grant Shapps said on Thursday.
The seven countries which will be removed from the list from
Nov. 1 are Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama,
Peru and Venezuela. Britain's chief medical officers ruled that
they were no longer of concern.
Shapps said the change would be adopted by England,
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and that several hundred
hotel rooms would be kept on standby in case authorities decided
to put countries back on the red list.
He also said 30 more countries would be added to a list of
nations whose coronavirus vaccinations are recognised by
Britain, taking the total to more than 135 countries.
(Writing by William Schomberg, editing by David Milliken)