UPDATE 1-UK will ditch travel quarantine for 75 countries, Daily Telegraph says

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LONDON, July 2 (Reuters) - The British government will
effectively ditch its air bridge plans and simply end the
coronavirus quarantine rules for those arriving from 75
countries so that people can go on holiday, The Daily Telegraph
reported.

The newspaper said the UK would shortly lift a ban on
non-essential travel to nearly all EU destinations, the British
territories including Bermuda and Gibraltar, and Turkey,
Thailand, Australia and New Zealand.

A spokesman for the transport ministry declined immediate
comment.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government has been grappling
with how to open up international travel after it imposed a
2-week quarantine for arrivals, which has added to the woes of
the shuttered tourism and travel industry.

Britain said on Friday that it would ditch a 14-day
quarantine period for people arriving from countries such as
France, Greece and Spain.

Simon Clarke, a junior housing, communities and local
government minister, said the government was working on an
announcement on travel.

"We will provide this announcement as soon as it is safe,"
Clarke told Sky. "We will be talking further about this this
week."

"Clearly we want to get the tourism sector back on its feet
as quickly as we can and I'm sure that we will be able to give
good news in the near future," he said.
(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton; editing by
Michael Holden)