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Covid-19: UAE, India to move to UK amber list on August 8
London - UK lifts ban on travel from UAE, India, Bahrain, Qatar.
By Prasun Sonwalkar
Published: Thu 5 Aug 2021, 7:57 AM
Last updated: Thu 5 Aug 2021, 8:48 PM
The Boris Johnson government on Wednesday night moved the UAE, India, Bahrain and Qatar from the 'red' list of countries – from where travel is banned – to the 'amber' list, which means travellers from these countries will be allowed to travel to the UK from Sunday (August 8).
Officials said the decision was taken following an improvement in the Covid-19 situation in these countries in recent weeks and months.
All changes will take effect from 4am on Sunday.
Passengers will need to take a Covid-19 test three days before travel, book and pay for tests to be taken after arrival in England and complete a passenger locator form.
On arrival in England, the passengers will need to quarantine at home or in the place they will be staying for 10 days, and take a test on or before the second day and on or after the eighth day of their arrival.
"The data for all countries will be kept under review and the government will not hesitate to take action where a country's epidemiological picture changes," an official statement said.
British transport secretary Grant Shapps said: "We're committed to opening up international travel safely, taking advantage of the gains we've made through our successful vaccination programme, helping connect families, friends and businesses around the world".
He added: "While we must continue to be cautious, today's changes reopen a range of different holiday destinations across the globe, which is good news for both the sector and travelling public."
The UK government also announced that arrivals from France to England will no longer need to quarantine if they are fully vaccinated. Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Slovakia, Latvia, Romania and Norway will be added to the government's green list, having demonstrated they posed a low risk to UK public health, officials added.
British health secretary Sajid Javid said: "As we learn to live with this virus, we're continuing to take steps to safely reopen international travel based on the latest data and expert public health advice".
He added: "The vaccines have already prevented around 60,000 deaths and 22 million infections in England and, with over seven in 10 adults in the UK now double-jabbed, we are building a wall of defence against the disease."
Following an assessment of the latest data, Georgia, La Reunion, Mayotte and Mexico will be added to the red list, since they present a high public health risk to the UK from known variants of concern, known high-risk variants under investigation or as a result of very high in-country or territory prevalence of Covid-19.
Since February, only British nationals and those with permanent residency who arrive in the UK from a country in the 'red' list has been required by law to book a stay in a managed quarantine facility for 10 days.
The quarantine price for single adult travellers will increase from £1,750 (Dh8290) to £2,285 (Dh11,660) from August 12, and £1,430 (Dh7,297) for a second adult, the statement added.
UAE-UK travel: What you need to know
The UAE Embassy in the UK has tweeted a list of the new rules for people planning to visit the country.
>> Travellers will have to present a PCR test conducted 72 hours before their departure
>> People have to register themselves in the Locator Form system
>> Visitors have to undergo quarantine for a period of 10 days
>> PCR tests have to be done on the second and eighth day of the quarantine period.
>> Quarantine is not mandatory for travellers who have received both doses of Covid vaccine from the NHS in England, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) or the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). A PCR examination, however, has to be done on the second day for people in this category.
>> Travellers who have not received both doses of the Covid vaccine from the above mentioned health authorities, have to undergo quarantine.


There has been a special period in your life: you are pregnant! After the first exciting months it is time to make some practical preparations for the arrival of your baby. The children's room has to be decorated, do you opt for the Bugaboo or for that cool Koelstra stroller? Do you want a Tummy Tub or a bath? And then there are those only baby clothes that you can hardly resist now!
Unfortunately, you do not have that much money to spend and buying everything at a new price would not be feasible. Time for a treasure hunt through low budget baby wonderland!
In 'Low budget baby - Lots of baby care for little' we give you tips on how you can get everything in the house with a low budget for the arrival of your baby.
You can bring the future baby room into the right atmosphere by buying special baby wallpaper or by painting the room. However, if you want to save costs and effort, you can also choose to place a few emphases. For example, stick special stickersets on the walls. You can decide how much you spend on this.
Buy some paint items and a large canvas at the Action of Blokker: costs around 25 euros. Then ask the children in your area, cousins and nieces to make a painting for the baby. You will be amazed by the colorful and artistic creation that comes from this!
Purchase some photo frames and put pictures of animals in them and then hang them in the nursery. Small children often like animals very much and in this way, if your child is a little bigger, you can already practice the animal sounds.
Also note a healthy design of the baby room. If there is carpet in the room, you can consider replacing it with a smooth floor such as laminate. This is more hygienic and means less dust than floor coverings.
With a large sheet of MDF (or plywood / hardboard = even cheaper) and one roll of fun children's wallpaper you can make the room a lot of fun. Wallpaper this plate and hang it anywhere on a large bare wall in the nursery. So you do not have to decorate the whole room for that baby atmosphere. Cut out some figurines from the remaining wallpaper strip and stick them with good glue wherever you want. You can also cut all kinds of nice images from magazines instead of buying a wallpaper roll and stick the whole plate with it. Then spray a good layer of varnish over it.
Take a look at a cycle for fun lamp shades, lamp feet, trash can buckets, coat racks, photo frames, rocking horses et cetera, buy a can of spray paint and spray these assecoires in the color you want.
For the window sill: filling a large glass vase (as large as possible) with all kinds of different small toys. You can get these toys on the cycle, as well as in the cheap toy stores, as free at the supermarkets (bungels). After all, these are purely for the ornamental!
No objection to decorating the baby room with used items? On the internet you will find a true mecca of baby stuff. Sites such as Marktplaats.nl and E-bay offer you the opportunity to make a first selection from your lazy chair because there are mostly pictures of the articles. A nice side effect is that once parents decide that there is no next child coming, they usually do everything that has to do with babies in one go. Often you can buy a large part of the baby set-up at one address. An example from practice: a complete nursery, maxi cosi and a box for 200 euros!
When you choose a used pram, buy a not too old one. Prams are very fashionable and it is common that there is a new collection every year in the stores. Should your used child's carride start to show unexpected defects, then chances are that there is no part left.
Also note the weight and collapsibility of the older models. Nowadays there are lightweight strollers on the market that you can fold in with one hand. With the older models this may still be different. Transporting children is growing muscles and if you also tell the pram you are away from home.
With a new stroller is often a matching baby bag. If you buy a used pram, it is possible that this bag is no longer available. Try a backpack instead of a special baby bag. At the baby shops you can buy a loose change mat and then the backpack is also very useful as a baby bag. And ergonomically responsible!
If you buy a used maxi cosi, you can protect it with a special terry cover. This folds around the maxi cosi where you turn a used one into a new one. The cover can be obtained from baby specialist shops.
If you want to be fully equipped, pay attention to the presence of an adapter when purchasing a used maxi cosi. With the newer models, you can place the maxi cosi on the chassis of the pram. The maxi cosi and the chassis are then connected to each other with the help of a special adapter. Handy if you want to go to the store, you can lift the maxi cosi out of the car and click on the chassis. The bin of the pram will leave you at home. Check whether both the maxi cosi and the pram are suitable for this.
Another way to put your pack together is to shop at baby outlet stores. These megastores offer all baby items under one roof. Because they sell directly to the customer, they can sell the items at competitive prices. They also often have offers and stock lots that are sold for little money.
In addition to the usual store, the outlets often have a web store so that you can place digital orders. There are baby outlets that sell a combination of new and used items. You can determine exactly which used items you buy and what you would rather have new.
Request various baby boxes. There are several to get and everything you get, you do not have to buy!
Do not forget yourself: your pants will not close after a few months and you also want to look nice when you are pregnant. There are web shops that can help you with this. In addition, there is also beautiful lingerie for sale for when you are pregnant.
Do not buy too much, especially if you have a limited budget. Everything is equally cute, but you limit yourself to what you need. For example, spoons are very useful, but the purchase of a series of 20 pre-read books may be a bit premature.
Pay attention to the price-quality ratio. Advantageous does not mean that you have to compromise on quality. So look for things that are of good quality, but have less luxury. For example, if you buy a cheap bedstead, make sure that it meets the requirements for a baby's safe sleep.
Do you remember your own baby photos? With those cuddly homemade outfits? Making your own baby clothes for your own baby can save you a lot of money. After all, you do not need much material that you can buy at the market or in the fabric store for a nice price. A sewing machine can be used on the head, or maybe you can borrow it from someone. In addition, if you have the taste, you can have fun and you can receive all those compliments for your well-dressed baby! Perhaps you can ask the makers of your baby clothes if they want to bring you the intricacies of clothing making. You can also follow a course in clothing at the regional fashion school. In the special monthly magazines you will find countless patterns for baby clothes. If you are looking for a specific pattern, you can often buy it separately via the internet.
In the Netherlands it is tradition to send birth announcements at the birth of a child. However, this can run in the papers. There are other fun opportunities to let your friends and family know that your child is born.
Put an advertisement in the newspaper, just like in Australia.
Purchase the birth announcements via the Internet: there are many designs available and this is often cheaper than ordering tickets through a printer.
An example of tickets ordered online: 75 tickets, including envelope and design for 133 euros. For the same number of tickets at a printer you will soon lose 200 euros or more.
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Of course you can also make a ticket yourself. You can already prepare the text with, for example, a sweet poem. The birth data and possibly a photo of the small you can add later. For those who can use some help, there are affordable software programs on the market of around 15 euros. You can choose from different card formats and layouts and make the card yourself, from design to print. So you have the costs in your own hands and you have a unique birth announcement!
In addition to the large purchases, you also need a number of smaller items during the maternity period. There are handy checklists with articles that should be in the closet when the maternity assistant and the midwife are at your door.
Many health insurances have included a maternity package in their cover and automatically send you this in time, about six weeks before the due date. In this package you will find a basic set of articles. This basic set-up can vary per insurer. Ask yourself before you buy maternity articles yourself, if you are insured for this package and what is in it. You do not have to buy those items yourself anymore. Do you not get a maternity package through your insurance? Then you can still purchase one at the pharmacy or drugstore.
Now that you are pregnant, you can get acquainted with articles that you will use a lot in the future in the form of gift boxes and test samples. You can request this via the internet.
If you like to gamble, you can take part in numerous competitions where you can win all sorts of useful articles. For example, Vadersenmoeders.nl has several competitions per month! You can almost always participate for free via various websites. The more often you participate, the greater the chance that you will win. And what you win you do not have to buy yourself anymore!
To make parents' busy lives easier, there are comparison sites that keep track of which baby item at which supermarket is on sale.
On many baby lists you see a few products that you do not really need. For example, a bath thermometer. You can also feel good with your elbow if the water is not too hot for your child. If you have a limited budget, delete it from your list.
You can also omit the purchase of spit cloths. You can use a hydrophilic diaper for this. In fact, it is much better. Such a hydrophilic is much larger, so the chance that your child spits right next to the cloth is much smaller.
You can breathe a sigh of relief, it is possible to shop for your baby set-up in a fun and inexpensive way. What better to not economise on?
Safety goes for everything. Make sure that everything is whole and functions well. This can be done anywhere in, a good bed, a safe mattress, a solid stroller and toys without sharp edges.


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Flip through 40 pages of a sketchbook that belonged to Oscar, a young Aboriginal man who grew up in Queensland in the 1880s.
The drawings in Oscar's book appear to present an autobiographical account of his life, with Indigenous scenes and cross-cultural contact.
Warning: Oscar's sketchbook features scenes that some visitors may find disturbing.
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Oscar's sketchbook is a rare record of life in the 19th century as drawn by a young Aboriginal man in Queensland.
When staff from the National Museum of Australia began cataloguing its collections in the early 1980s, they came across a cardboard box containing items once owned by the Institute of Anatomy. At the bottom of this box lay an old exercise book labelled 'Drawn by Oscar'.
The sketches found inside were depictions of a young Aboriginal man's memories of growing up in Far North Queensland. Oscar's pencil drawings depict a variety of scenes from traditional ceremonies to interactions with Europeans, to places he visited in the surrounding area — a rare record of life in the late 1800s from an Aboriginal person's perspective.
Property manager and Oscar's overseer, Augustus Henry Glissan, gave Oscar the exercise book in 1898. Glissan also wrote an index interpreting the drawings and sent the completed book, with an accompanying letter, to Dr Charles Bage in 1899.
Read the letter property manager Augustus Glissan sent to an old family friend, Dr Charles Bage, with Oscar's completed sketchbook.
Who was Oscar?
Almost nothing is known about Oscar apart from what is contained in a letter written by his overseer Augustus Glissan when he sent the notebook to Dr Charles Bage in 1899. Oscar was only a boy when he was given into Glissan's care: 'This boy I got at Cooktown in 1887 ... the police got him for me and brought him on board the steamer.'
According to Glissan, Oscar was born in around 1877 in the Palmer River region of Far North Queensland. It appears that Oscar was badly burnt at a young age and consequently had trouble riding a horse when he first arrived at the station. He also suffered from asthma.
The drawings show that Oscar was aware of the work of those Aboriginal people who worked for the Native Police Corps, and he appears to have come into contact with Chinese miners attracted to the area during the 1870s gold rush.
Native Police Boys, Palmer River
We may never know what happened to Oscar after he finished his sketchbook. Did he remain on the property? Did he move to another station? Did he die young or live to old age?
Who was Augustus Henry Glissan?
Augustus Henry Glissan was the manager of Rocklands station near Camooweal, on the Queensland–Northern Territory border. Glissan recognised Oscar's talent for drawing and gave him an exercise book and some pencils to record his thoughts and memories.
The book remained the property of Glissan who then wrote the index and sent the work to his friend Charles Bage. Glissan died in 1935, aged 87.
Boss Ordering Boys to Bathe (Cold Weather)
Who was Dr Charles Bage?
Dr Charles Bage was born on 7 October 1859 and died on 7 December 1930. He had a medical practice in South Yarra, Victoria until 1923.
On 30 March 1899, Augustus Glissan sent Oscar's sketchbook to Bage, an old family friend. Bage gave the book to his colleague Sir Colin MacKenzie, the founder of the Institute of Anatomy.
When the National Museum of Australia took over the Institute of Anatomy's collection, it also acquired Oscar's precious drawings.
Palmer River region
Oscar was born in the Palmer River region of Far North Queensland. In 1887 he was brought from Cooktown to Rocklands station, near Camooweal, by Augustus Glissan.
He lived and worked at the station when the sketchbook was sent to Dr Charles Bage in 1899.
Background on Oscar's sketchbook
Read more about this rare sketchbook, its contents and how the Museum came to acquire it.
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