Live Yorkshire Covid updates as green list of countries set to be announced today
The government is expected to make the announcement today
The government is due to announce which countries can be visited without quarantining this summer.
Portugal, Iceland and Malta are among those expected to be on the travel green list as well as Gibraltar and Israel.
Travel will be permitted again when restrictions ease further on May 17 with a new traffic light system in place.
This means destinations on green, amber and red lists will have different rules in place to avoid the spread of Covid-19.
It comes after data showed Yorkshire has six of the ten worst coronavirus infection areas.
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Health experts “haven’t seen any hint” at the moment of a Covid variant that can fully evade the effectiveness of vaccines, a leading scientist has said.
Sharon Peacock, head of the Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK) and professor of public health and microbiology at the University of Cambridge, said it could be the case that coronavirus mutates to become less infectious, though she warned it could take years for it to become like the common cold.
Asked whether a variant will emerge somewhere across the globe that is resistant to current vaccines, Prof Peacock told Times Radio: “That’s what we’d call it, a variant of major concern. We haven’t seen anything like that to date, and the question you’re asking is the million dollar question in many ways, everybody wants to know what’s the likelihood and when is it likely to occur, if at all.
No sign of covid variants being resistant to vaccines, says expert Some people have predicted that a virus could emerge that is pretty resistant to vaccines, but we haven’t seen any hint of that at the moment
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No sign of covid variants being resistant to vaccines I remain optimistic that we’re in a good place – that the viruses that are circulating are susceptible to vaccinations
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Health experts “haven’t seen any hint” at the moment of a Covid variant that can fully evade the effectiveness of vaccines, a leading scientist has said.