England Will Fine People $7,000 for Going on Vacations Abroad

As is currently the case, the new legislation will allow foreign travel for work, volunteering, or study abroad. Medical needs, funerals, and weddings are also legally-permitted reasons to travel out of England, the BBC explained. People who are residents abroad are also allowed to leave.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said in a statement, “We are rightly ending as many national measures as safely as possible, while maintaining those which remain necessary and proportionate to help reduce and control infections further as we cautiously but irreversibly ease restrictions and our historic vaccination program continues apace.”

The new law aims to dissuade people from taking vacations abroad, and then increasing the virus’ transmission at home with the new variants that are spreading across the world. The travel restrictions, if passed by parliament, will be reviewed on April 12, and then again every 35 days.