Travellers returning to the UK from Italy will need to quarantine from Sunday.
The UK Department of Transport (DfT) and Scottish Authorities indulge in announced the unique solutions being assign in pronounce for travellers from Italy, San Marino and Vatican Metropolis State.
The solutions can be applied from 4am on Sunday and can simply require those effected to preserve in quarantine for 14 days.
Meanwhile, mainland Greece and the Greek islands, with the exception of Mykonos, can be added to the exemption listing for folk arriving in UK, including Scotland, attributable to the low assortment of cases there.
Italy recorded its top likely everyday assortment of coronavirus cases on Wednesday, with 7,332.
This brings its seven-day rate of cases per 100,000 of us to 64.
The UK’s case rate for the time being stands at 166.
Figures indulge in been calculated by the PA news agency primarily based on recordsdata gathered by the European Centre for Illness Prevention and Adjust.
A rate of 20 is the threshold above which the Authorities considers triggering quarantine stipulations.
Community Safety Minister Ash Denham said:
“Lifting quarantine restrictions on those travelling from most of Greece, primarily based on the public properly being recordsdata now we indulge in, is now not a signal that it is safe to e book distant places skedaddle. All skedaddle carries a risk and of us may well indulge in to judge prolonged and laborious sooner than deciding on to cross in a foreign country.
“It’s far important that we supress the unfold of the virus in Scotland and imposing quarantine restrictions on those arriving in the UK is our first line of defence in managing the risk of importing cases from communities with excessive risks of transmission.
“We are persevering with to indulge in sleek discussions with the assorted three governments in the UK.”
