The Department of Home Affairs has just announced its revised list of Red countries, being the countries whose citizens and residents may not travel into our country as Leisure Tourists. The initial List of 60 countries was announced on 30 September, with a promise of it being updated every 14 days, but the announcement today is late by five days!
Very sadly Germany has been added to the Red List, making all the Big Five source markets for our country Red! Spain has been added to the List too, it having been a surprise that the country was not on the initial Red List.
The 22 Red Listed countries for Leisure Travel are as follows:
Argentina
Bangladesh
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Chile
Colombia
France
Germany
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Italy
Mexico
The Netherlands
Peru
Philippines
Russia
Spain
UK
USA
New countries added to the List are Spain, Germany, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Italy, Canada, and Philippines.
Countries which have been removed from the Red List are Austria, Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Georgia, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Panama, Paraguay, Venezuela, Suriname, Guyana, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Palestine, Lebanon, Oman, Nepal, Qatar, Bahrain, United Emirates, and the Maldives.
The Red List is due to be updated at the end of the month again.
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