The UK, France and the Republic of Ireland are to be split into regions and categorised under Jersey’s Covid-19 traffic-light system, meaning that people travelling to the Island may face different isolation restrictions depending on where they have come from.
Anyone who has spent at least one overnight stay in an amber zone in the two weeks before travelling would be required to isolate for five days and have two negative tests, while those coming from a red zone face isolating for two weeks.
The region of Mid and East Antrim in Northern Ireland has been given red status. There are more than 40 amber zones – including Manchester and Liverpool.
Regionalisation for France will be applied by department, for the Republic of Ireland by county and for the United Kingdom by upper-tier local authority.
Dr Ivan Muscat, Jersey’s Deputy Medical Officer of Health, said: ‘We ask all travellers arriving to the Island to declare their travel history, as required by the Safer Travel Policy. We have expanded our risk-based approach to include regions where reliable and verified data is available.
‘Regions within countries where there is a higher level of risk are under stricter testing and isolation requirements. However, where there are significantly lower levels of risk, less stringent requirements will be in place.
‘We test almost everyone arriving in the Island through our border testing programme, which allows travel in and out of the Island, meaning that families are able to reunite, people can travel for work and we can welcome visitors, while ensuring that the risk of onward transmission remains low.’
A full list of regions and their risk classifications is available on the gov.je website.
