Travelers Set to Be Freed From U.K. Isolation Rules on July 19
- Transport Secretary Grant Shapps will announce plan Thursday
- Children likely to be included to allow family holidays
Passengers wait at check-in desks at London Heathrow Airport in London, U.K., on May 17.
Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg
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Britons who have received both doses of a coronavirus vaccine are set to be given more freedom to travel around the world from July 19, under plans due to be announced Thursday.
Officials have been working on an overhaul of the pandemic rules for foreign trips so that passengers returning to England from destinations on the government’s “amber list” -- judged to be medium risk for coronavirus -- won’t need to isolate for 10 days.