{"id":38799,"date":"2021-02-22T20:04:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T20:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/?p=38799"},"modified":"2021-02-25T07:36:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T07:36:11","slug":"no-foreign-holidays-until-may-17th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/no-foreign-holidays-until-may-17th\/","title":{"rendered":"No foreign holidays until May 17th","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8230; at the earliest from the UK<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2021\/02\/Arrivals-Departures-Madeira-Airport-FNC-Funchal.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38800 lazyload\" title=\"\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2021\/02\/Arrivals-Departures-Madeira-Airport-FNC-Funchal.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38800\" title=\"\"><\/noscript><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Foreign holidays: having just listened to Boris&#8217;s latest low-key and cautious announcements during the much anticipated Downing Street news conference tonight, it looks like it will be at least May 17 before Madeira can expect to see any UK visitors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overseas holidays will not be permitted until at least May 17, Boris Johnson announced in the Commons earlier this afternoon. The Prime Minister explained that current restrictions on international leisure travel will only be eased pending a review in April, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/people\/grant-shapps\" class=\"rank-math-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transport Secretary Grant Shapps<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Domestic holidays will also be prohibited until April 12 at the earliest, Johnson confirmed. While an initial tranche of wider restrictions will be lifted in the first stage of the plan, which begins next month, even domestic holidays will not be permitted until the second stage of the strategy \u2013 due to begin in seven weeks\u2019 time, at the earliest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The current raft of restrictions on international travel \u2013 including triple testing of passengers, quarantine hotels, and ten-day mandatory quarantine \u2013 will remain in place until mid-May.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the review will investigate how they could be lifted through vaccine certificates for travellers who want to holiday abroad and verify their inoculations and through testing for both inbound and outbound travellers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/edit.php?post_type=post\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Another post copied!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>COVID-19 in Madeira:\u00a0<\/strong>previous daily updates can be found\u00a0on\u00a0an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/covid-19-latest-update-from-madeira\/\" class=\"rank-math-link\">earlier post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; at the earliest from the UK Foreign holidays: having just listened to Boris&#8217;s latest low-key and cautious announcements during the much anticipated Downing Street news conference tonight, it looks like it will be at least May 17 before Madeira can expect to see any UK visitors. Overseas holidays will not be permitted until at least May 17, Boris Johnson announced in the Commons earlier this afternoon. The Prime Minister explained that current restrictions on international leisure travel will only be eased pending a review in April, led by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps. Domestic holidays will also be prohibited until April 12 at the earliest, Johnson confirmed. While an initial tranche of wider restrictions will be lifted in the first stage of the plan, which begins next month, even domestic holidays will not be permitted until the second stage of the strategy \u2013 due to begin in seven weeks\u2019 time, at the earliest. The current raft of restrictions on international travel \u2013 including triple testing of passengers, quarantine hotels, and ten-day mandatory quarantine \u2013 will remain in place until mid-May.&nbsp; However, the review will investigate how they could be lifted through vaccine certificates for travellers who want to holiday abroad and verify their inoculations and through testing for both inbound and outbound travellers. Another post copied! COVID-19 in Madeira:\u00a0previous daily updates can be found\u00a0on\u00a0an\u00a0earlier post<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-regional-people-headlines","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}