Dec 21, 2020
BERLIN (AP) A growing list of European Union nations barred travel from the U.K. 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 canceled because of rapidly spreading infections blamed on the new coronavirus variant.
Johnson immediately placed those regions under a strict new Tier 4 restriction level, upending Christmas plans for millions.
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Dec 21, 2020 06:00 am
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LONDON: British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said yesterday that the government has imposed a strict Christmas lockdown in London and south-east England because a new strain of the coronavirus is out of control .
Mr Hancock warned that the strict measures could stay in place until the virus vaccine is fully rolled out. We acted very quickly and decisively, he told Sky News, justifying the stay-home order and closure of non-essential shops affecting around a third of England s population. Unfortunately the new strain was out of control. We have got to get it under control.
EU nations, Canada ban travel from UK due to new coronavirus strain December 21, 2020
Eurostar passenger trains from London to Paris, Lille, Brussels, and Amsterdam have also been canceled on Monday and Tuesday.
LONDON Officials in both the UK and the EU will meet later on Monday after a host of the UK s European neighbors banned travel from the country due to a new more infectious strain of coronavorus that has spread rapidly across England and Wales.
As other European countries continue to deliberate on bringing in similar measures, France, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, Italy, Bulgaria, Finland and Denmark are among the countries to have announced bans of varying lengths. Canada has now also banned flights arriving from the UK.
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