How have people returned from Brazil during a ‘ban’?

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Q Can I ask how is it people have managed to return from Brazil in the past month while carrying the new variant? And how two people from my area returned from Dubai without being stopped by authorities? I thought the government had stopped those flights?

“Cheeky Chav”

A Both Brazil and the UAE (including Dubai) are on the UK government’s “red list,” along with Portugal, South Africa and 29 other countries.