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The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) Regulations 2021 (SI 2021/582) is a statutory instrument (SI) made on 14 May 2021 by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The regulations aimed to reduce the possibility of infection ...
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The Regulations also broaden (by amending the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Self-Isolation) (England) Regulations 2020) the personal details that health service personnel or local authority personnel may disclose about an individual, and extend the permitted uses of those details to include the prevention, investigation ...
leave England to travel to a destination outside the UK, or; travel to or be present at an embarkation point (such as an international terminal) in order to leave the UK. The wording of the first bullet point prevented an individual in England from, say, driving to Scotland and attempting to leave the UK from there.
Two households could form a bubble (interact when they wished) whilst any number of children under eleven and up to 15 or 30 individuals over that age could take part in indoor and outdoor organised events respectively. Travel restrictions within Wales were lifted though non essential visits to other parts of the UK or abroad remained banned.
The SI related to England only; there were separate regulations for travellers to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. On 17 May 2021 the regulations were revoked and replaced by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) Regulations 2021 .
Contents. First COVID-19 tier regulations in England. Not to be confused with The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (All Tiers) (England) Regulations 2020, the December–March tier regulations (also used from 6 January 2021 to enforce the third national lockdown).
Context and earlier regulations. In response to the developing COVID-19 pandemic, the UK government issued advice to English schools on 12 March 2020 that they should cancel trips abroad, and on 16 March that the public should avoid non-essential travel, crowded places, and visits to care homes.
All COVID travel restrictions are lifted for travellers entering the UK. 21 March – NHS England launches its Spring Booster Programme, offering a booster vaccine to 600,000 people aged over 75, who are residents in a care home, and those aged over 12 considered to be medically vulnerable.
The FCO advises against all but essential travel to the United States due to the restrictions imposed in response to the pandemic. [63] Health Secretary Matt Hancock says that every UK resident over the age of 70 will be told "within the coming weeks" to self-isolate for "a very long time" to shield them from COVID-19.