Since the detection of a new COVID-19 variant in South Africa, various countries have put travel restrictions in place.
Ireland has dropped the mandatory quarantine policy for travellers coming from countries on their high-risk list, which has opened up a bit of a loophole.
Last week, the UK announced that South Africa would remain on its travel ‘red list’. The reasoning doesn’t hold up under basic scrutiny.
There’s a scheduled change for the UK’s “traffic light” system pending, and it could spell great news for South Africans who want to travel to and from the UK.
The petition to get South Africa off of the UK’s red list needed 10 000 signatures to force the UK government to respond, with that number already comfortably exceeded.
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