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Vaccinated UAE nationals and residents will be able to visit the UK without the need to quarantine from October 4.
James Cleverly, Minister for Middle East and North Africa at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, early on Saturday wrote on Twitter: “Delighted that international travel is opening up.
“We are finalising arrangements with [the] UAE to include their nationals and residents in our plans to open up to the fully vaccinated from other countries from October 4.”
UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps on Friday said that from October 4 the UK's Covid-19 travel rules will be overhauled and its traffic light system replaced with a single red list, mandating hotel quarantine, alongside rules on vaccinated and unvaccinated travellers from other countries.
Among new measures to open up travel announced on Friday, eight nations including Turkey, Egypt and Pakistan will be removed from the UK’s red list for travellers from September 22.
The Maldives, Sri Lanka, Oman, Bangladesh and Kenya are also set to see travel restrictions ease.
The changes offer a huge boost to the travel industry, with British families now looking to book winter sun holidays.
Although no specific guidance on travel requirements has been offered to those living in the UAE, current demands on a 10-day quarantine for all arrivals from the UAE are likely to change.
Currently, all travellers from the Emirates must currently quarantine on arrival, with at least five days spent in a private residence in the UK.
If a Covid-19 test taken on day five comes back negative, quarantine is lifted.
Passengers arriving from red list countries, that cover much of South America and southern Africa, must still quarantine in government-approved hotels, if arriving from Covid hotspots.
A mandatory 10-day hotel quarantine stay at a government approved hotel costs £2,285 ($3,140) per person.
On Thursday, Emirates announced it was preparing for a spike in demand by employing 3,000 cabin crew and 500 service staff as the airline gears-up for close to pre-pandemic levels of air travel.
Sole survivors
- Cecelia Crocker was on board Northwest Airlines Flight 255 in 1987 when it crashed in Detroit, killing 154 people, including her parents and brother. The plane had hit a light pole on take off
- George Lamson Jr, from Minnesota, was on a Galaxy Airlines flight that crashed in Reno in 1985, killing 68 people. His entire seat was launched out of the plane
- Bahia Bakari, then 12, survived when a Yemenia Airways flight crashed near the Comoros in 2009, killing 152. She was found clinging to wreckage after floating in the ocean for 13 hours.
- Jim Polehinke was the co-pilot and sole survivor of a 2006 Comair flight that crashed in Lexington, Kentucky, killing 49.
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Dr Amal Khalid Alias revealed a recent case of a woman with daughters, who specifically wanted a boy.
A semen analysis of the father showed abnormal sperm so the couple required IVF.
Out of 21 eggs collected, six were unused leaving 15 suitable for IVF.
A specific procedure was used, called intracytoplasmic sperm injection where a single sperm cell is inserted into the egg.
On day three of the process, 14 embryos were biopsied for gender selection.
The next day, a pre-implantation genetic report revealed four normal male embryos, three female and seven abnormal samples.
Day five of the treatment saw two male embryos transferred to the patient.
The woman recorded a positive pregnancy test two weeks later.
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