From 4 October, fully vaccinated “rest of the world” travellers will no longer be required to take pre-departure COVID tests nor Day 8 COVID tests. They will, however, still need to book and pay for a Day 2 COVID test as well as to fill out passenger locator forms at any point during the 48 hours preceding their arrival in the UK.
As for unvaccinated travellers from “rest of the world” countries, they will still have to submit to pre-departure tests as well as Day 2 and Day 8 PCR tests, and they will still have to quarantine for 10 days.
Meanwhile, travellers from red list countries remain virtually barred from entering the UK – but eight countries have been moved off the red list since 22 September: Bangladesh, Egypt, Maldives, Oman, Pakistan, Turkey, Sri Lanka, and Kenya. The current, and regularly updated, red list can be found here.
