{"id":5132,"date":"2021-04-05T17:10:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T17:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silverbirdsafari-africa.com\/blog\/covid-19-kenya-added-to-uks-red-list-travel-ban\/"},"modified":"2021-04-05T17:10:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T17:10:35","slug":"covid-19-kenya-added-to-uks-red-list-travel-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverbirdsafari-africa.com\/blog\/covid-19-kenya-added-to-uks-red-list-travel-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Kenya added to UK&#8217;s &#8216;red list&#8217; travel ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom has banned people travelling from Kenya from entering England&nbsp;starting April 9 to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kenya is among four counties that have been added to the UK\u2019s red list amid concerns about new Covid-19 variants.<\/p>\n<p>Travellers, who have departed from or transited through Kenya, the Philippines, Pakistan and Bangladesh in the previous 10 days will be refused entry into England.<\/p>\n<p>Only British and Irish citizens or residents will be allowed to enter the country from these nations from 4am on Friday April 9.<\/p>\n<p>They will&nbsp;be required to arrive into a designated port.<\/p>\n<p>In an update&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/countries-added-to-red-list-to-protect-uk-against-variants-of-concern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on the GOV.UK&nbsp;website<\/a>, the UK said some travellers from Kenya&nbsp;have tested positive for the&nbsp;South African variant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf the average of 550 people that travel from Kenya to the UK each week, a significant number are testing positive on Day 2. Nearly a third of those positive have been carrying the B.1.351 variant, which originated in South Africa,\u201d the update said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The update said&nbsp;no direct flight bans from these countries will be put in place, but passengers are advised to check their travel plans before departing for England.<\/p>\n<p>The British High Commission in Kenya in a letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs&nbsp;said the directive is a temporary measure that will be kept under review.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe travel restrictions will only remain in place whilst the level of risk is assessed to justify these measures,\u201d the commission said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/tea\/news\/east-africa\/covid-19-kenya-added-to-uk-red-list-travel-ban-3346510\"><strong>The East African<\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom has banned people travelling from Kenya from entering England&nbsp;starting April 9 to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.&nbsp; Kenya is among four counties that have been added to the UK\u2019s red list amid concerns about new Covid-19 variants. Travellers, who have departed from or transited through Kenya, the Philippines, Pakistan and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silverbirdsafari-africa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silverbirdsafari-africa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silverbirdsafari-africa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverbirdsafari-africa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverbirdsafari-africa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silverbirdsafari-africa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverbirdsafari-africa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverbirdsafari-africa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}