Prognosis
U.K. Poised to Allow Foreign Trips to Just a Handful of Places
- Government set to publish green list of safe countries Friday
- ‘Cautious’ Johnson wants to allow foreign travel from May 17
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The U.K. is set to lift the ban on international leisure travel from mid-May but only a handful of countries are likely to be approved as holiday destinations, as ministers seek to keep control over the pandemic.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s officials are studying the latest data on infection rates in other countries with a view to adding those with low levels of Covid-19 to a new “green list” of approved destinations for foreign travel.