Ministers will allow fully vaccinated travellers from the EU and US to avoid quarantine when they arrive in England.
Currently, people who have been fully vaccinated in the UK do not have to isolate when travelling from the US and EU
But that exemption does not apply to people who have been vaccinated outside the UK
The Covid Operations committee met this morning - full details of the decision will be released mid-afternoon.
The aviation industry is pushing for a relaxation of these rules following a trial of checking the vaccination status of passengers.
Boris Johnson says 16 August is "nailed on” as the end of isolation for fully-vaccinated people who have contact with a positive Covid case.
The daily number of Covid cases recorded in the UK on Tuesday has fallen for a seventh day in a row, to 23,511
Olympic host city Tokyo records its largest number of new Covid infections in a single day since the pandemic began.
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