Hancock: no plans to put all European countries on travel 'red list'

Health secretary also says there are no changes to England’s timings for resuming international travel

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There are no plans to put all European countries on the travel “red list” as a third wave of cases grows in countries such as Germany, France and Italy, the health secretary, Matt Hancock, has said.

A month-long lockdown has started in several French regions including Paris, while Germany has announced an Easter shutdown in an attempt to halt rising infections. On Monday the health minister Lord Bethell raised the prospect of having to “red-list all of our European neighbours”, but Hancock said there were “no plans” to do that.