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Desperate Brits scramble to get some of the last flights back to UK before travel corridors axed
Updated: 16 Jan 2021, 14:40
DESPERATE Brits scrambled to get some of the last flights home today after Boris Johnson announced all travel corridors would be axed after the weekend.
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One woman in Manchester wore a hazmat suit as she struggled to push her heavy load of luggage Credit: Zenpix
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Other travellers were seen trudging through the city s airport in a desperate bid to get homeCredit: Zenpix
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Some holiday makers took extra precautions as new Covid variants threaten BritainCredit: BackGrid
Holiday makers who managed to dodge the lengthy isolation period were seen landing in airports up and down the country today.
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UPDATE (February 9): In an effort to stop as-yet-unidentified new strains of the virus entering the country, the UK government announced last month that all travel corridors would be temporarily scrapped.
All incoming travellers must now provide a negative test result from within the past 72 hours and quarantine for ten days (in England this can be cut to five days if they take another test at their own expense and it comes back negative).
Travel is also currently banned from around 33 ‘red list’ countries. British and Irish citizens, plus official UK residents, are still being allowed in, but must quarantine in a hotel at their own expense from Monday (February 15).
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