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<p>Decisions on the list of countries that are exempt from self-isolation requirements
have been guided by the science.</p><p> </p><p>The Joint Biosecurity Centre, in close
consultation with Public Health England and the Chief Medical Officer, has developed
an approach to assessing the public health risk associated with inbound travel from
specific countries and territories. This categorisation has informed the government’s
decisions about relaxation of border measures.</p><p> </p><p>The categorisation has
been informed by an estimate of the proportion of the population that is currently
infectious in each country, virus incidence rates, trends in incidence and deaths,
transmission status and international epidemic intelligence as well as information
on a country’s testing capacity and an assessment of the quality of the data available.</p><p>
</p><p>The government will keep the requirements and exemptions set out in the regulations
under review.</p><p> </p>
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