The Greek islands of Lesvos, Santorini, Serifos, Tinos and Zakynthos have been added to the journey hall record.
The choice comes following a lower in confirmed circumstances of coronavirus within the locations, and means friends coming back from the islands to the UK will now not need to self-isolate for 14-days.
The adjustments come into impact from 04:00 on Saturday morning.
The newest danger evaluation for these Greek islands signifies that the dangers to UK public well being from travellers coming back from these locations has decreased to a suitable stage.
A variety of things are taken into consideration when deciding so as to add or take away a vacation spot from the exemption record, together with the continued enhance of coronavirus inside an space, the numbers of recent circumstances, info on testing capability, testing regime and take a look at positivity charge and potential trajectory of the illness within the coming weeks.
On the similar time, the Overseas, Commonwealth & Growth Workplace (FCDO) has additionally up to date its journey recommendation with Lesvos, Santorini, Serifos, Tinos and Zakynthos now exempt from the worldwide advisory in opposition to non-essential journey.
No nations have been faraway from the journey hall record this week.
