Britons Told to Avoid Amber List Countries as EU Loosens Travel Rule

Britons Told to Avoid Amber List Countries as EU Loosens Travel Rule
British Airways planes at Heathrow Airport, West London on May 17, 2021. Steve Parsons/PA
Lily Zhou
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has stressed that people shouldn’t go to “amber list” countries except in extreme circumstances as the European Union is set to allow fully vaccinated tourists into the bloc.

Portugal, one of the only two places in the EU that are currently on the UK’s “green list” along with the Faroe Islands, had broken rank and started welcoming much-missed British tourists since Monday when Britons were allowed to go on foreign holidays again.