Boris Johnson said on Friday that from 4am on Monday all travel corridors will be suspended and anyone coming to the UK must have proof of a negative test in the previous 72 hours.
Mass roll-out of Covid vaccines for the over-70s could begin NEXT WEEK - as expert warns BOTH Brazilian variants are likely now in the UK but says current wave HAS peaked
After today s efforts, the UK has now vaccinated 3.5 million people - nearly one in 20 of the population
Department of Health figures show the daily coronavirus death toll has risen 50 per cent week-on-week
But statistics also show that the UK s outbreak is finally starting to slow, with cases down 23.7% in a week
Urgent support : UK aviation industry warns of collapse following travel curbs Suban Abdulla Plane lands at an airfield at the sunset
Britain’s aviation sector risks collapse without “urgent” government support if it is to survive another long travel curb, industry groups have warned.
Prime minister Boris Johnson announced on Friday that from 4am on Monday, arrivals to the UK from all destinations will be required to quarantine in an effort to reduce the spread of any new variants of COVID-19.
This means that all travel corridors which were in place to allow arrivals from some nations to forgo quarantine will be closed.
UK daily Covid deaths rise by over 1,000 for a fifth day in a row with 1,295 - but infections are down by a THIRD week-on-week with 41,346 new cases
There was a 25 percent increase on last Saturday s death toll, taking the total number of deaths to 88,590
But in a sign that the harsh lockdown measures are taking effect, cases declined by nearly a third on last week s figure - as the total climbed to more than 3.3 million infections recorded since the pandemic began
Meanwhile a senior SAGE scientist has claimed that the actual number of Britons catching the disease is closer to 150,000, arguing that the size of the second wave is now significantly worse than the first