Holidays to dozens of places are back on from today with popular long-haul destinations such as Mexico, South Africa and Thailand opening up.
Forty-seven countries were removed from the Government’s red list at 4am on Monday, meaning arrivals from those locations no longer need spend 11 nights at a quarantine hotel at a cost of £2,285 for a solo travellers.
The red list now has just seven countries on it: Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Peru and Venezuela.
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has also lifted its advice against non-essential travel to a further 42 countries and territories due to the coronavirus pandemic.
It follows the removal of travel advisories to 41 places last week.
The changes to the FCDO travel advisories make it easier for people to obtain travel insurance for those destinations.
They are part of a new policy to stop advising Britons to avoid all but essential travel to non-red list countries on Covid-19 grounds except…