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Travelers from non-European countries must take a rapid test within four hours of their flight. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, in response, canceled all of its long-haul flights. The Netherlands government announced a new COVID-19-related lockdown on Wednesday that severely limits international travel, prompting flag carrier KLM Royal Dutch Airlines to suspend all of its long-haul flights, according to Reuters. New requirements mandated by the government require passengers to obtain a negative CO...

The flight ban is effective from 23 January 2021 and passengers will be contacted and re-booked on alternative flights at no additional cost.

BBC News 15 January 2021 Image copyright Getty Images Travellers from South America are no longer allowed to come into the UK, amid fears over a new coronavirus variant first identified in Brazil. The UKs new travel ban - which also applies to Portugal and Cape Verde - came into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday. Like variants discovered in the UK and South Africa, it is thought the Brazil variant could be more contagious. Virologist Prof Wendy Barclay said one ...

UK ban on travellers from South America begins © Getty Images Travellers from South America are no longer allowed to come into the UK, amid fears over a new coronavirus variant first identified in Brazil. The UKs new travel ban - which also applies to Portugal and Cape Verde - came into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday. Like the variants that were first spotted in the UK and South Africa, it is thought the Brazil variant could be more contagious. It comes as a further 1,248 people with coronaviru...

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Updates to public health foreign travel and pre-departure testing.

Francio Guadeloupe Selected as Caribbean Research Program Chair Mr. Denicio Wyatte (St. Maarten Agriculture) announced that former University of St. Martin (USM) president Dr. Francio Guadeloupe has become one of the two recipients of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) grants assigned to the Caribbean part of the Dutch Kingdom and will serve as chair of the research program, entitled Islanders at the Helm and based at USM for the next five years. Former University of St. Martin (USM) president D...

For decades, Latin America has been littered with one currency crisis after another. The best way to avoid these is to dump their disaster‐​prone currencies and replace them with the U.S. dollar, as Panama, Ecuador, and El Salvador have done. Dollarization occurs when residents of a country use a foreign currency instead of the country’s domestic currency. The term “dollarization” is used generically and covers all cases in which a foreign currency is used by local residents. Even ...

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Foreign direct investment involving UK companies Foreign direct investment involving UK companies: 2019 Investment of UK companies abroad (outward) and foreign companies into the UK (inward), including investment flows, positions and earnings, by country, component and industry. Contact: 1. Main points The value of inward foreign direct investment earnings fell in 2019 (£43.8 billion) compared with 2018 (£75.2 billion); this decrease (£31.4 billion) was much larger than the fall in outward ...