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UK lifts travel ban on UAE, Bahrain, Oman

Travelers from the UAE, Bahrain and Qatar can enter the United Kingdom again.

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Heathrow Chief Executive John Holland-Kaye poses outside Terminal 5 in west London on Aug. 2, 2021, as quarantine restrictions ease. — TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images

The United Kingdom removed three Gulf states from its virus-related travel ban list on Thursday.

The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Qatar along with India will be moved from the UK’s red list to its amber list because “the situation in these countries has improved,” the British government said in a travel notice.

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