Coronavirus UK news update – Brits told NOT to travel to Spain unless ‘urgent reason’ after border reopens to tourists
BRIT tourists have been urged NOT to jet off to amber list countries, including Spain, after the nation today opened its borders to visitors.
And as tourists flocked to Spain today, business minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan said scientists still think there is “too great a risk” in travelling to amber list countries for non-urgent reasons such as holidays.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that people should not travel to amber countries except for essential reasons – but Spain’s tourism minister said the country was in a “good place“.
Meanwhile, the coronavirus pandemic will be declared OVER if it’s proven vaccines have stopped hospital admissions rising, a top Oxford jab doctor has claimed.
Professor Andrew Pollard, from the University of Oxford, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “If the current generation of vaccines are able to stop people going into hospital, whilst there is still mild infections, people are getting the common cold with the virus, then the pandemic is over.”
Meanwhile, Dr Jenny Harries yesterday said the prospects for ending all coronavirus lockdown restrictions in England on June 21 are “looking good”. According to Public Health England, the Pfizer vaccine is 88% effective against the symptoms of the variant after the second dose, while the AstraZeneca proved 60 per cent effective.
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