Business travel is still permitted for those people living in the UK¡¯s new tier 4 regions in London and the south east of England announced on Friday and which came into force on Sunday.
The UK government announced new restrictions for the following areas of England:
London
? All 32 London boroughs plus City of London
South East
? Kent and Medway
? Buckinghamshire
? Berkshire (Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, Wokingham, Windsor and Maidenhead and West Berkshire)
? Surrey (excluding Waverley)
? Hastings and Rother
? Havant, Gosport and Portsmouth
East of England
? Hertfordshire
? Essex (excluding Tendring, Uttlesford and Colchester)
? Central Bedfordshire, Bedford, Milton Keynes, Luton
? Peterborough
?
The government says people in these areas can ¡°leave home for work purposes, where your place of work remains open and where you cannot work from home¡±.
It added, ¡°If you live in a Tier 4 area, you can only travel internationally - or within the UK - where you first have a legally permitted reason to leave home.¡±
It said that travel for work purposes is one of the legally permitted reasons.
However, the emergence of a new strain of Covid has seen many countries around the world impose bans on flights from the UK and stricter quarantine and testing rules for those coming from the country.