PEOPLE who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 will be able to go on holiday to amber list holidays without being required to isolate for ten days on return, it is set to be confirmed.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps is expected to confirm the decision, which is likely to come into force from July 19.

It will mean more than 34 million people will have a much bigger selection of holiday destinations to choose from including many popular tourist spots such as Spain, France, Greece and Portugal.

In a Commons statement, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps will explain the terms under which holidaymakers from England who are fully vaccinated will no longer be required to self-isolate for 10 days on their return.

The move will come as a huge boost to the travel industry which is pressing for restrictions to be eased from July 19 when lockdown controls are due to be lifted in England.

Ministers are expected to sign off on the final measures – including the exact timing – at a meeting of the Cabinet’s Covid-O committee ahead of Mr Shapps’ statement.

The move comes as a group of more than 120 scientists and medics called on the Government to halt its plans for lockdown lifting, describing them as a “dangerous and unethical experiment”.

In a letter to the Lancet, they warned millions more people will became infected if it goes ahead, leaving hundreds of thousands with long-term illness and disability through long Covid.

Signatories include Dr Chaand Nagpaul, the chair of the council of the British Medical Association, and Sir David King, a former government chief scientific adviser.

“This strategy risks creating a generation left with chronic health problems and disability, the personal and economic impacts of which might be felt for decades to come,” the letter said.

“Allowing transmission to continue over the summer will create a reservoir of infection, which will probably accelerate spread when schools and universities reopen in autumn.

“We believe the Government is embarking on a dangerous and unethical experiment, and we call on it to pause plans to abandon mitigations on July 19.”

While many more countries will now be an option for holidaymakers, some may impose restrictions on visitors from the UK when they arrive.

There has been frustration in the travel industry – which has been heavily hit by the pandemic – that the Government has not moved more swiftly to ease controls in the wake of the vaccine rollout.

EasyJet boss Johan Lundgren said: “For too long, Brits have been uncertain of when they can enjoy the same travel freedoms afforded by their jab as those in Europe and this is despite the huge success of our vaccination programme which has now successfully fully vaccinated around two thirds of UK adults.”

Paul Charles, chief executive of travel consultancy The PC Agency, advised consumers to “lock in deals” before prices go up as “the Government is likely to announce a vaccine dividend for the fully-jabbed from July 19”.