UK opens 'travel corridor' to Gulf states
Visitors to the United Kingdom from Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE will not need to isolate upon arrival come Saturday.
Visitors to the United Kingdom from three Gulf countries will soon be able to skip a virus-related quarantine.
Travelers coming from Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates will be able to enter the UK without needing to self-isolate beginning on Saturday, according to the "travel corridors" list from the British Department of Transport.
All visitors to the UK must self-isolate for two weeks, unless they have spent the last 14 days in exempted countries. These countries include places where there are few COVID-19 cases, including Australia and South Korea. Many African states with similarly low coronavirus numbers are not on the list.
Transit stops count as countries a visitor has been to and Qatar and the UAE are major international transit hubs.
