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A woman pulls a suitcase past the Christmas tree on the concourse of Waterloo Station in central London, Sunday, December 20, 2020. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP)
A growing list of European Union nations and Canada barred travel from the UK on Sunday and others were considering similar action, in a bid to block a new strain of coronavirus sweeping across southern England from spreading to the continent.
France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Ireland and Bulgaria all announced restrictions on U.K. travel, hours after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that Christmas shopping and gatherings in southern England must be cancelled because of rapidly spreading infections blamed on the new coronavirus variant.
Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Canada have joined a growing list of nations in barring travel to and from the United Kingdom as part of a bid to block a new strain of coronavirus that is sweeping across southeastern England.
Sunday’s travel bans came hours after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that Christmas shopping and gatherings in London and many of its surrounding areas had to be cancelled because of rapidly spreading infections blamed on the new coronavirus variant.
Johnson also placed those regions under strict new Tier 4 restrictions, upending Christmas plans for millions of people, and prompting France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Ireland and Bulgaria to impose curbs on UK travel.
2020-12-21 22:35:20 GMT2020-12-22 06:35:20(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) Sweden on Monday announced that it s barring travelers from neighboring Denmark after the country reported a new and more infectious variant of the coronavirus first found in the UK.
The move came after Sweden suspended travel links with the UK following British Health Secretary Matt Hancock s warning that the new strain of the coronavirus is out of control there.
The ban was announced at a joint press conference held by Sweden s Home Affairs Minister Mikael Damberg, Foreign Minister Ann Linde, and the Public Health Agency s director-general Johan Carlson.
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