Data informing international travel traffic-light risk assessments: 15 July 2021
A summary of key data used by the Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC) to inform country risk assessments.
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»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC), part of the UK Health Security Agency, in partnership with devolved administrations, has developed a dynamic risk assessment methodology to inform ministerial decisions on red, amber and green list countries and the associated border measures against the risks of importing cases of SARS-CoV-2 and its variants.
Available and relevant sources of information for each country or territory are used to provide an overall assessment on:
- genomic surveillance capability
- SARS-CoV-2 transmission risk
- variant of concern (VOC) transmission risk
Decisions are taken by ministers informed by evidence including JBC’s analysis as well as other relevant public health factors.
A summary of key data used by JBC to inform the latest round of assessments is shown in the tables.