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Play now Spain and France have avoided being added to Scotland s red travel covid quarantine list meaning travellers who are doubled jabbed won t have to self-isolate on return.
Scottish Government ministers updated the travel list last night with a number of countries moving up and down the lists. Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Slovakia, Latvia, Romania and Norway all moved from amber to green in the shake-up announced by the Transport Secretary Michael Matheson.
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