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The Times has the latest changes on the government’s travel restriction lists and also news of an increase in hotel quarantine costs.

A new vaccination programme could begin within days, potentially seeing all over-16s given coronavirus jabs, reports The Times.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has told young people that going into the office can be “really beneficial” to their careers and warned that video conferencing was no substitute, The Times reports.

The Times reports that the government is considering creating an amber watchlist, which would include countries at risk of moving to the red list with little warning.

The Times leads on claims householders have been warned to brace themselves for the biggest energy bills rise in a decade with more than half facing an increase of about £150 a year.

The Times says the imposition of quarantine rules for French visitors was based on cases of the COVID Delta variant on the French overseas territory of Reunion, thousands of miles away from the mainland.

Ministers have been warned by senior health officials that allowing fully vaccinated Europeans to enter the UK freely could raise the risk of lower quality vaccines undermining Britain’s immunity against COVID-19, The Times reports.

Boris Johnson is worried Britain may “squander its vaccine bonus”, so he’s planning to ease England’s COVID travel restrictions soon, says The Times.

The peak of the third COVID wave may have passed, according to The Times, after COVID cases fell for a sixth day in a row.

According to The Times, Britain is seeing a sustained fall in reported COVID-19 cases outside of lockdown for the first time since the pandemic began.