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Ibiza, Majorca and Menorca moved to amber travel list

Ibiza, Majorca, Menorca and Formentera are being transferred to the Government of Amber’s travel list for the UK.

Balearic Islands will join the list from 04:00 BST on Monday, 15 days after they are transferred to the green monitoring list.

The Scottish government and Welsh said they would do the same thing, and Northern Ireland is expected to follow.

From Monday, only people over the age of 18 who are not fully vaccinated must still be quarantined to return from the Yellow List State.

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Requirements for self isolates are removed to be fully vaccinated and under the 18s from Monday in the United Kingdom, Scotland and Wales but tourists in Northern Ireland must wait a week before the regulations change.

The British Virgin Islands also moved to the Amber list, while Cuba, Indonesia, Myanmar and Sierra Leone will be moved to the most strict red list.

Bulgaria and Hong Kong will move to the green list, while Croatia and Taiwan join the list of green monitor, which means they risk moved to Amber.

It can be understood that data shows a large increase in cases in the Balearic Islands after the final party.

Minister of Transportation Grant Shapps said the case level has doubled because the islands are added to the green monitoring list, which means the government needs to “move fast”.

He also warned that people traveling abroad this summer need to make sure they can get their money back or re-reset their accommodation, adding that “Nothing can be out there thinking we can travel and just rely on things that are do not change”.

But the vacation company package Tui said the “lack of transparency” about the methodology and data behind the change made it “very difficult for customers to order far before with confidence”.

Easyjet said it could not understand why people would be allowed to attend nightclubs from Monday without masks or social distance but the government “was uncomfortable with people going to European beaches where the infection rate was lower than in the UK.” ,

Virgin Atlantic called on the government to “act decisively” and add a state with a high vaccination rate, such as the US, to the green list on the next review.

Workers criticize the government because they do not publish state-of-state data informing the traffic light system.

Shadow Transportation Secretary Jim McMahon said: “People booked a vacation with good faith and now facing the prospect of losing because the minister refused to directly with the community.”

‘I’m sick of everything’

Medi Jones Williams, from Bristol, booked a vacation to Majorca on Friday and said he was still planning to fly there on Saturday for a seven day trip.

The 25-year-old had his first vaccine three weeks ago, and now wanted to get a second dose as soon as possible.

He told the BBC: “I will still leave because I’m sick of everything. I feel like if I won’t happen because everything keeps changing.

“I understand why they should vaccinate the first parents but when they arrived at 40 they should vaccinate everyone.

“It doesn’t make sense to open on Monday when not everyone is vaccinated.”

‘No guarantees’

Mr Shapps defends the government traffic light system, said that the category means “people can see, broadly, where these countries are classified”.

He added: “We do not control this virus, especially in how to influence other districts, their level of vaccination, the level of their genome sequencing, their testing regime.”

Traveling to the green list Destinations tends to be a “better bet” than the one in the green watchlist, he said, but warned “no guarantee”.

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