Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, however reports appeared earlier in the day. Michael Matheson, Scotland's Transport Secretary, announced the changes after Shapps took to social media.
Under the new guidelines, travellers from the US or EU who are fully vaccinated will be able to skip self-isolation after they arrive in the UK.
Speaking today, Yousaf said: "We'd rather the UK Government had worked with us and we could have got to a joint position and communicated that jointly, that would have been a better position to be in.
Meanwhile a furious mum has been left stranded abroad after new Covid rules brought into place mean that her teenage daughter must isolate for 21 days.