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Hundreds of British skiers forced to quarantine in the Swiss resort of Verbier have escaped from their quarters, with a local politician complaining it was nearly impossible to control coronavirus due to Europe’s porous borders.

By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read ZURICH (Reuters) - Hundreds of Britons have fled quarantine in the Swiss ski resort of Verbier, with the country’s health minister attributing the exodus to an “impossible situation” where authorities moved at short-notice to contain a new variant of the coronavirus. On Dec 21, the Swiss government ordered people who had arrived from the United Kingdom and South Africa since Dec. 14 to undergo a 10-day quarantine to prevent the spread of more contagious variant...

Share on Twitter Hundreds of Britons have fled quarantine in the Swiss ski resort of Verbier, with the country’s health minister attributing the exodus to an “impossible situation” where authorities moved at short-notice to contain a new variant of the coronavirus. On 21 December, the Swiss government ordered people who had arrived from the United Kingdom and South Africa since 14 December to undergo a 10-day quarantine to prevent the spread of more contagious variants of the ...

Hundreds of UK tourists flee Swiss Verbier ski resort after being told to quarantine The i 28/12/2020 Joanna Whitehead Hundreds of UK tourists flee Swiss Verbier ski resort after being told to quarantine Hundreds of British holidaymakers forced to quarantine in the Swiss ski resort of Verbier fled their accommodation over the weekend rather than see out a newly imposed isolation period, after fresh measures were put in place to contain the coronavirus. Swiss authorities imple...

Only 12 Britons remain in quarantine in Swiss ski resort after hundreds flee Peter Beaumont © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images Only a dozen British tourists out of about 420 appear to be left in the Swiss ski resort of Verbier after an undisclosed number fled a mandatory quarantine, many under cover of darkness, risking a 10,000 Swiss franc fine (£8,300) and drawing widespread condemnation on social media. Asked about the runaway tourist...

British tourists fled Swiss ski resort under cover of night after quarantine imposed, says local official CNN 12/28/2020 By Fanny Bobille, Arnaud Siad and Amy Woodyatt, CNN © Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images A picture taken on December 22, 2020, shows a gondola lift in the Swiss Alpine resort of Verbier, well known by british ski holiday makers, amid the Covid-19 (novel coronavirus) pandemic. - Hundreds of British tourists forced into quarantine in the Swiss ski resort of ...

Among those who fled the country last week was Andy Wigmore, one of the self-styled "bad boys of Brexit" best known for his work on the "Leave EU" campaign. Wigmore had flown to Wengen with his wife, two children and two of their friends, for a weeks skiing and had been due to return home on Christmas Eve. They were on the slopes when they were warned by a local that the border would close at 6pm that evening, prompting them to drop everything and flee. "We had to get out of there or wed have b...

I dont blame them for leaving: How British skiers fled Covid quarantine in Verbier While some chose to cross the border by train, others left in the dead of night, fearful that hoteliers would report them to police 28 December 2020 • 7:00pm They had fled a wet and gloomy UK for the fresh powdered snow and bright blue skies of Switzerlands finest ski resort. But in the end, perhaps unsurprisingly, British tourists discovered that it was mighty difficult to escape a global pandemic and instead ...

A ski instructor walks past a screen with social distancing instructions at the start of a ski lift in the Alpine resort of Verbier. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images Only about a dozen British tourists out of about 420 appear to be left in the Swiss ski resort of Verbier after an undisclosed number fled a mandatory quarantine, many under cover of darkness, risking a 10,000 Swiss franc fine (£8,300) and drawing widespread condemna...