Kenya put on United Kingdom Red list Travel Ban
Kenya put on United Kingdom Red list Travel Ban: As the world is facing and trying to manage covid-19, a lot has been done by a number of countries to avoid the emergence of new cases and unknown viruses like encouraging mass vaccination, ensuring the regular use of hand sanitizer, encouraging the wearing of face masks, and in some instances you can see a number of countries banning other countries to travel to them. Among the notable countries that have issued travel bans united kingdom has with its other nations like Wales, Scotland, northern Ireland have also come up with red lists where a number of countries to avoid the spread of the virus.
Kenya is among the different countries in the world that have been banned to travel to United Kingdom and this is because of the fact that on average of 550 people that travel from kenya to the united kingdom, a great number tests positive of the B.1.351 variant that is also an advanced covid-19 virus that originated from south Africa which is among the deadliest among pther corona virus variants because it poses more deaths than other variants and as a result, tourists are required to take covid-19 tests on day two and day eight upon arrival this is because of the fact that there has been positive cases that are got during quarantine and tests on day two
PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED TO ENTER THE UNITED KINGDOM
Although a number of citizens have been banned to travel to United Kingdom, there has been an exceptional on some of people from the country and these include; British national, Irish national and third country nationals with residence rights are the only ones allowed to travel to United Kingdom.
British national, Irish national and third country nationals with residence rights in the united kingdom that have departed and transited through kenya within 10 days will have to go under quarantine for 10 days which will help carry out tests for the different that may locate the virus variants like B.1.351 which were discovered in south Africa and brazil.
Among the countries on the united kingdom red list travel ban include Rwanda, Angola, Argentina, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Botswana, brazil, Burundi, Colombia, cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, the democratic republic of Congo, kenya, Lesotho, Guyana, French gulana, Namibia, Oman, panama, Paraguay. Peru, Qatar, Seychelles, , Somalia, Tanzania, south Africa, united Arab emirates, Venezuela, Zambia, Uruguay, Zambia and Zimbabwe and the list will be updated with other countries that are yet to be listed.
Reasons for the red list travel ban
The main reason for putting Kenya on the red list among the countries that a banned from travelling to United Kingdom is t reduce the risk of new virus variants into the united kingdom as a need to avoid the number of deaths in the country. The united kingdom is one of the main countries that have received a large number of covid-19 deaths that’s why they are very cautious and this has led to putting across a number of travel restrictions and safety precautions by a number
The united kingdom has seen a number of falls on the death tolls fall after the 3 months lockdown from 70,000 infections to 3,402 after the the lockdown and this is a nother reason why they are red listing a number of countries that may carry new variant B.1.1.7 which poses the risk of death compared to other variants and Kenyans that travel to the UK have tested positive for the new variant of corona virus which has killed a number of people and hence causing a threat to the people of the united kingdom that have carried out a number of measures to avoid new cases of the virus
KEY FACTORS TO NOTE WHEN YOU TRAVEL FROM KENYA
- From 9 April 2021, all passenger flights , commercial and charter are suspended
- All passengers from united kingdom to kenya are required to present a valid covid-19 vaccination certificate and a covid-19 pcr test
- Tourists from united kingdom to kenya should self isolate for 7 days on arrival in kenya
- United kingdom tourists that travel to kenya without a valid covid-19 vaccination certificate but with a negative pcr test are subjected to 14 days of quarantine.
- While in quarantine at any of the government authorised centres in Kenya, tourists will pay for the different costs that they will incur while in the country.
