UK plans ‘travel corridors’ to EU countries

Posted by Anita Froneman on 4 June 2020

The United Kingdom is in talks with governments of several EU countries over creating a ‘travel bubble’, ‘travel corridor’ or ‘air bridge’ as different countries have termed it.

European countries are opening their borders collectively on 15 June, allowing for international travel.

Portugal, Greece and France are some of the countries that could be entering such an agreement with Britain, and these visitors to the UK will be exempted from the 14-day quarantine applicable to all other visitors entering the country, according to The Telegraph.

Speaking to BBC Radio, Portuguese foreign minister, Augusto Santos Silva, said that ‘quarantine is an enemy of tourism’ and anyone wanting a holiday in Portugal this summer would be ‘most welcome’, reports The Guardian.

The London Chamber of Commerce encouraged the implementation of travel corridors, saying that a blanket quarantine for all international arrivals ‘sent out a message that the UK is closed for business.’

Its chief executive, Paul Scully, proposed country-by-country assessments and added that the government’s steps to restarting the economy should ‘recognise that arrivals from some countries with much lower transmission levels than the UK and low incidence of the disease would not increase our risk, provided they adopted our social distancing protocols on arrival’, according to The Guardian. 

Residents of the UK expressed mixed reactions on Twitter:

 

Also read: Only certain passport holders can visit Portugal

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