The announcement came after British prime minister Boris Johnson’s official spokesman said decisions on border measures and travel advice “can be changed rapidly if necessary to help stop the spread of the disease.
“Unfortunately no travel is risk-free during this pandemic and disruption is possible and so anyone travelling abroad should be aware that our travel advice and exemption list is under constant review as we monitor the international situation.” The decision comes after the Spanish government said it was in talks with the UK about excluding the Balearic and Canary islands from the UK’s quarantine measures.said: “Within individual countries there is no way for us to control intra-country transport; it is therefore very difficult and challenging to have a regional exemption list, and that is why we’ve not been able to give exemptions to the Balearics.
The WHO director general said that the pandemic “continues to accelerate”. “In the past six weeks, the total number of cases has roughly doubled,” he told the press briefing in Geneva on Monday. He added: “Covid-19 has changed our world. It has brought people, communities and nations together, and driven them apart. It has shown what humans are capable of – both positively and negatively.More than 16.35 million people have been reported to have been infected by Covid-19 globally, and 649,225 people have died from the disease, according to a Reuters tally. – PA/Reuters