It came as 20,000 British holidaymakers faced a rush to escape Croatia yesterday following the decision to add the country to the quarantine list, along with Austria and Trinidad and Tobago.įrom 4am on Saturday travellers arriving to the UK from the Mediterranean country will have to self-isolate for 14 days after a spike in coronavirus cases led to the British government removing Croatia from its safe travel list.Īt London Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 on Friday evening, British Airways flights arriving from the Croatian city of Dubrovnik and the capital Zagreb were among the last to arrive in the UK before the quarantine deadline.Īdam and Katie Marlow, from Buckinghamshire, were forced to drive a hire car three hours from the coastal city of Zadar to Zagreb to catch a new flight home instead of returning on Saturday. The prospect of regional corridors will be welcomed by airline and airport bosses who describe the quarantine rule as a ‘blunt tool’ that fails to take into account the relatively low level of cases in specific regions of restricted countries. ‘Those are things that we’re looking at in the review, along with how we could test at airports, we’re also looking at how you could do regionalisation effectively.’ ‘Of course, then you get down to how good a level of detail you’ve got about individual islands which might be part of another country with a landmass somewhere else. Where there are islands, that is something we are looking at. ‘The answer is it’s quite easy to travel about the country so we’re not able to do it like that. I think it’s harder to do within a country - people say, with France for example, why don’t you just do this region and not the other? Mr Shapps (pictured) warned the Government will need accurate infection rate data from island destinations before officials can green-light the proposalsĪsked whether Britons might soon be able to go on holiday to the Canaries, he told BBC Breakfast: ‘I think there is a case for regionalisation.
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