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New U.K. COVID-19 strain is ‘already in the U.S.,’ expert says Herb Scribner © AP Lorries are parked on the M20 near Folkestone, Kent, England as part of Operation Stack after the Port of Dover was closed and access to the Eurotunnel terminal suspended following the French government’s announcement, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. The new mutation of the novel coronavirus in the United Kingdom “is already in the United States,” Dr. Scott Gottlieb recently told CNBC. What’s going on? Gottlieb — the former chief of the Food and Drug Administration — said that the new ...

Full article “Delays only apply to a very small percentage of food entering the UK,” the Prime Minister said, pledging to sort out the problem “in the next few hours”. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday sought to sound a note of calm saying he was working “as fast as possible” to unblock trade across the Channel after France shut its borders to UK haulers in a bid to contain a new variant of the coronavirus. Following conversations with French President Emmanuel Macron over the ban, which has caused chaos around the key UK ...

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22 Dec 2020 Many broadcast news bulletins featured footage of lorries queuing for miles along the M20 in Kent yesterday (Monday) after France closed its border with the UK. But Boris Johnson gave a televised briefing putting what appeared to be a positive gloss on events and stressing that the government and local authorities had contingency plans in place. The prime minister said: “We’ve activated our long-prepared plans, with the result that we’ve already been able to reduce the number of lorries waiting on the M20 from 500 to 170.” Mr Johnson was speaking jus...

Stranded truck drivers are calling for immediate help from the Government with thousands stuck while the Port of Dover and Eurotunnel remain closed to traffic leaving the country. Millions of pounds worth of Scottish seafood is among the cargos which have now been left idling in queus waiting to cross to the continent.  More than 1,500 lorries are backed up in Kent, unable to make the crossing to France, with drivers having spent a second night sleeping in their cabs. Ronald Schroeder, 52, from Hamburg, Germany, who was turned back from Dover on Sunday night, said the “social situa...