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Only 12 Britons remain in quarantine in Swiss ski resort after hundreds flee Peter Beaumont © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images Only a dozen British tourists out of about 420 appear to be left in the Swiss ski resort of Verbier after an undisclosed number fled a mandatory quarantine, many under cover of darkness, risking a 10,000 Swiss franc fine (£8,300) and drawing widespread condemnation on social media. Asked about the runaway tourists, the Swiss health minister, Alain Berset, said: “We are aware of that. It’s obviously a proble...

British tourists 'fled' Swiss ski resort 'under cover of night' after quarantine imposed, says local official CNN 12/28/2020 By Fanny Bobille, Arnaud Siad and Amy Woodyatt, CNN © Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images A picture taken on December 22, 2020, shows a gondola lift in the Swiss Alpine resort of Verbier, well known by british ski holiday makers, amid the Covid-19 (novel coronavirus) pandemic. - Hundreds of British tourists forced into quarantine in the Swiss ski resort of Verbier fled in the night rather than seeing their holidays go downhill, the local municipality ...

Among those who fled the country last week was Andy Wigmore, one of the self-styled "bad boys of Brexit" best known for his work on the "Leave EU" campaign. Wigmore had flown to Wengen with his wife, two children and two of their friends, for a week's skiing and had been due to return home on Christmas Eve. They were on the slopes when they were warned by a local that the border would close at 6pm that evening, prompting them to drop everything and flee. "We had to get out of there or we'd have been stuck," he told

'I don't blame them for leaving': How British skiers fled Covid quarantine in Verbier While some chose to cross the border by train, others left in the dead of night, fearful that hoteliers would report them to police 28 December 2020 • 7:00pm They had fled a wet and gloomy UK for the fresh powdered snow and bright blue skies of Switzerland's finest ski resort. But in the end, perhaps unsurprisingly, British tourists discovered that it was mighty difficult to escape a global pandemic and instead found themselves making a frantic dash back home. Hundreds of Britons who had opted for a festiv...

A ski instructor walks past a screen with social distancing instructions at the start of a ski lift in the Alpine resort of Verbier. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images Only about a dozen British tourists out of about 420 appear to be left in the Swiss ski resort of Verbier after an undisclosed number fled a mandatory quarantine, many under cover of darkness, risking a 10,000 Swiss franc fine (£8,300) and drawing widespread condemnation on social media. Asked about the runaway tourists, the Swiss health minister, Alain Berset, sai...