SL to be removed from UK red list

 

                                       

Sri Lanka will be removed from the red list of the United Kingdom (UK) with effect from next Wednesday (22), the UK government said. 

This was tweeted by the country’s Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps Friday.

Sri Lanka has been in the red list since June 08, as part of a group of countries the UK government has defined as particularly high-risk for new and emerging strains of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. British passport holders visiting red list countries have to spend more money and time on quarantine.

Sri Lanka, Turkey, Pakistan, the Maldives, Egypt, Oman, Bangladesh and Kenya will be removed from the red list from September 22.