LONDON" British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday confirmed pubs and restaurants could reopen to serve outdoors in a week's time, as COVID-19 restrictions are lifted, but sounded a note of caution on international travel resuming.
"We think that these changes are fully justified by the data," Johnson added, while warning against"complacency".However the prime minister gave little information on the resumption of non-essential international travel from Britain despite massive pent-up demand for summer holidays abroad. British nationals who arrive from a banned"red list" of high-risk countries face costly quarantine in government-approved hotels.
The prime minister said there was"absolutely no question" of people being asked to provide COVID-19 certification to go to shops or restaurants in seven days, but left the door open to vaccination passes being used for travel in future. This has boosted the public mood after more than 126,000 people died from the virus in the United Kingdom, the highest toll in Europe.
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