Nations Impose UK Travel Ban Over Out Of Control Coronavirus Variant Nations Impose UK Travel Ban Over Out Of Control Coronavirus Variant Austria, Belgium, Italy, Ireland, Germany, France and the Netherlands announced bans Sunday, with others expected to follow. Israel, Turkey and Saudi Arabia have also temporarily suspended flights departing from or arriving in the United Kingdom.
Updated: December 21, 2020 9:01 am IST
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European countries - and some beyond the continent - are restricting travel from the United Kingdom amid mounting fears over an infectious new strain of the novel coronavirus first detected in England.
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 .
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A level five lockdown could get Ireland back to normal by St Patrick s Day , according to an infectious diseases expert.
Professor Anthony Staines from DUC says implementing the restrictions over a ten-week period could see normality resume by March 17th.
It comes as 764 new cases of COVID-19 and four further deaths were confirmed yesterday, with Dr Tony Holohan expressing his concern that coronavirus trends are moving in the wrong direction more rapidly than anticipated.
Meanwhile, the 48-hour travel ban on passengers from Britain is likely to be extended, the Transport Minister Eamon Ryan has said.
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Spain latest to ban British travellers as EU remains divided on response to new strain
Crisis talks in Brussels produced no coordinated plan to avoid the chaos and confusion seen at airports and land border
21 December 2020 • 9:19pm
Travellers in the arrivals area of T4 terminal at Madrid airport as the country suspends flights from the United Kingdom
Spain became the latest country to cut travel links to Britain on Monday over a new, rapidly spreading strain of the coronavirus as the EU failed to agree on a joint travel ban.
The country announced it will be banning travellers from the UK from Tuesday in coordination with neighbouring Portugal after crisis talks in Brussels on Monday produced no coordinated plan to avoid the chaos and confusion seen at airports and on land borders. Spanish citizens and residents will be allowed to enter the country.
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