COUNTRIES around the world have banned travellers from the UK with France banning British lorries coming into the country for 48 hours following the discovery of a more infectious mutant coronavirus strain. Amid chaos at the port of Dover – which is stopping millions of pounds of Scottish exports reaching their destination – Nicola Sturgeon will attend the UK Government’s Cobra civil contingencies committee later today. France last night shut its ports to UK freight and joined Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Israel and El Salvador in banning all flights carrying passengers from the UK. French Transport minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari has since said that a protocol would be adopted at a European Union-wide level to ensure that movement from the UK can resume .