UK puts US on ‘red-list’

Passengers arriving into England from the United States will not be exempted from quarantine rules, Britain’s transport minister Grant Shapps said.

Asked whether the United States would be on a “red-list” of countries to which a 14-day quarantine period will apply, Shapps said: “I’m afraid it will be.”

“The US from a very early stage banned flights from the UK and from Europe so there isn’t a reciprocal arrangement in place,” he told the BBC. — Reuters