Holidaymakers wanting to visit amber countries urged to have ‘more patience’
Popular summer hotspots such as Spain, France, Italy and Greece are among the countries on the list.
Holidaymakers wanting to visit countries on the Government’s amber list have been urged by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps to have “more patience”.
Popular summer hotspots such as Spain, France, Italy and Greece are among the countries on the list.
Mr Shapps appealed for people to have “a little more patience as the world catches up with our vaccine programme”.
Travellers returning to Britain from an amber location must quarantine at home for 10 days and take a pre-departure test and two post-arrival tests.
“There’s a heck of a lot of hassle involved,” Mr Shapps told Sky News.
“It’s expensive.
“We’re not at the stage of saying to people, go to those places on holiday, in fact, please don’t.”
He added that people should only go on foreign holidays to green list countries.
Portugal is currently the only major viable tourist destination on that list.
Asked why holidays were still being sold to countries on the amber list, Mr Shapps said the Government had moved away from a system where things were “banned and illegal” to a situation where people were expected to “apply a bit of common sense”.
