Hello and welcome to the South Bank in London, which today is very crowded. I'm here with your Green List travel podcast. Today, the new rules that Malta has just brought in a day after they were put on the Green List. What happens to your insurance and other points when you go

against foreign office advice? And cruising the Ballyarix, I'm going to make the case for why

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Well, if you remember the one proper country properly put on the green list on Thursday night was Malta.

Beautiful island should have been on the green list actually weeks ago.

All the other places are either not entire countries or actually more pressingly.

They are on the green watch list.

So quarantine could be reimposed at any time.

So an awful lot of people booking up for Malta.

But I have got the update for today, the 26th of June, and this says that Malta will accept EU and UK digital COVID vaccine certificates

as of the 1st of July, which is good. But they also say that if you do not have a proof

of being fully vaccinated, you cannot travel from the UK to Malta.

Now, this is very, very serious. Children, age 5 to 11, can travel if they accompany vaccinated parents,

only if the children have a negative PCR test carried out within 72 hours

of arrival in Malta and under fives don't need a test at all. So you've got kids age 13 or 14

or 15 or whatever. They will only be able to travel with a full vaccination certificate,

which of course they will not have.

So effectively, teenagers banned from going to Malta this year.

It's going to cause huge consternation.

I very much hope that the rules will be tempered to perhaps allow under 18s to

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