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France, the Republic of Ireland and the UK are to be broken down by region under new travel rules starting next Wednesday. Here's what we know so far.
The Government confirmed yesterday that the new approach will begin at midnight on Wednesday 2 September.
"For France regionalisation will be by department, for the Republic of Ireland it will be by county and for the United Kingdom the regionalisation will be by upper tier local authority," a spokesperson explained.
They added that colour ratings for these regions under the Government's 'traffic light' system will be confirmed and announced later today.
Jersey currently has direct air routes to Manchester, Birmingham and Luton - areas which all feature on the UK Government's 'watchlist' of nearly 30 locations, and whose case numbers are rising week-on-week.
Pictured: The UK 'watchlist' with data compiled by Public Health England. (CLICK to enlarge)
Manchester has 47.3 cases per 100,000 population, Birmingham has 30.2 and Luton has 26.6.
Jersey also operates a direct route to Liverpool, which is near a number of areas on the watchlist, though none of its local authority districts specifically feature in the list.
Jersey's new regional classification system will split regions in England by their "upper-tier authority" - the higher-level council responsible for taking action in these locations - and see each marked as 'green', 'amber' or 'red'.
In France, the highest case numbers are being observed In Sarthe (Pays de la Loire), Bouches-du-Rhone (home to Marseille) and Alpes-Maritimes (including Nice, Cannes and Antibes), which have all been designated 'red' by the country.
Some parts of Jersey's neighbouring regions, Brittany and Normandy, have been made 'orange'. Wearing a mask was also recently made compulsory in Saint Malo.
Pictured: The latest regional classifications in France. (Ministère de la Santé)
According to the latest publicly available stats for the Republic of Ireland, Dublin has the highest number of cases (13,095), followed by Kildare (2,195) and Cork (1,620). All other areas have fewer than 1,000 cases.
Ahead of this regional change, Jersey's Government has confirmed that individual classifications will be applied to the Canary Islands from 00:00 on Saturday 29 August.
Tenerife and Fuerteventura will move from green to amber. Gran Canaria and Lanzarote will move from green to red. Las Palmas will remain green.
From midnight on Sunday, Jamaica will move from green to amber, and Namibia will move from amber to red.
Passengers arriving from an amber country are only allowed to leave self-isolation after receiving two negative covid tests - one on their first day in Jersey and another five days later.
Pictured: Amber travellers can only leave isolation after two negative swab tests.
Passengers arriving from a red country are required to be tested on arrival, but must isolate for 14 days - even if they receive a negative result.
Under Jersey's travel guidance system, countries are generally designated green if they have 0-25 cases per 100,000 people, amber for 25-120, and red for more than 120.
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