People arriving in Northern Ireland will also be advised to self-isolate for ten days.
A Sinn Fein proposal for a temporary prohibition on travel between Northern Ireland and Great Britain was defeated during an emergency late night virtual executive meeting, the PA news agency understands.
The meeting was convened at short notice after health minister Robin Swann circulated a paper responding to the emergence of the Covid-19 variant in which he recommended issuing guidance against all but essential travel rather than proceeding to an immediate ban.
It is understood the DUP, UUP and Alliance opposed the Sinn Fein proposal while the SDLP supported it.
Travel to North continues after bid for outright ban voted down
A man pulling luggage walks passed a sign that face coverings must be worn at all times within the terminal at George Best Belfast City Airport. Northern Ireland is considering strengthening its travel locator paperwork and is consulting legal experts after a mutation of coronavirus was discovered in London and Kent.
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David Young, PA
Stormont ministers are to issue guidance advising against non-essential travel between Northern Ireland and both Great Britain and the Republic after a bid for an outright ban on GB travel was voted down.
Two of the U.K.’s most famous musicians have taken a stand against coronavirus lockdowns.
Rock and blues guitarist Eric Clapton released an anti-lockdown song titled Stand and Deliver on Friday, which was penned by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison.
The 4-minute and 33-second track expresses criticism over shelter-in-place orders and other coronavirus restrictions such as face masks. Do you wanna be a free man/ Or do you wanna be a slave? Clapton sings. Do you wanna wear these chains / Until you’re lying in the grave? Eric Clapton and Van Morrison worked on Stand and Deliver, a song that is critical about coronavirus lockdowns. (Photo by Listen To The Lion/Lobeline Communcations via Getty Images)
Proceeds from Stand and Deliver will go to Morrison s Lockdown Financial Hardship Fund
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Van Morrison and Eric Clapton perform at the Music For Marsden 2020 at The O2 Arena on March 3, 2020 in London, England. Credit: Neil Lupin/Redferns
Eric Clapton has join forced with Van Morrison on a new song, the fourth track in the latter’s current series of anti-lockdown songs.
Morrison recently shared three anti-lockdown protest songs, in which he accused the government of being “fascist bullies”. ‘No More Lockdown’, ‘Born to Be Free’ and ‘As I Walked Out’ were written in opposition to the government’s coronavirus restrictions.