The Government’s decision to form travel corridors with European countries fuelled a rise in Covid cases, an official study has suggested. Public Health England’s analysis of 4,000 positive tests in patients with recent travel links last summer found 86 per cent were arrivals from the continent. The study, which is likely to reignite the debate about … Read more
The Government’s decision to form travel corridors with European countries last summer fuelled a rise in Covid cases, an official study has suggested. Analysis by Public Health England found people arriving from the continent made up 86 per cent of imported cases between May and September. The study, which is likely to reignite the debate … Read more
Passengers have been refused permission to fly to Britain today after their negative Covid results were not deemed up to scratch because they were lateral flow tests – despite the Government saying they should be accepted. There was also chaos for thousands arriving at Heathrow Airport today at they were forced to wait for 90 minutes … Read more
Airports could close altogether after Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend all of Britain’s quarantine-free travel corridors – as move deepens crisis faced by travel and aviation industries Anyone arriving in the UK will have to produce a negative coronavirus test All flights from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde have been banned The PM’s announcement … Read more
Boris Johnson today declared that all arrivals to the UK will have to have tested negative for coronavirus from Monday as he begged Britons to ‘stay at home this weekend’. At a Downing Street briefing, the PM warned it was ‘not the time to relax’ as he escalated controls at the country’s borders again. Amid … Read more
Boris Johnson today declared that all arrivals to the UK will have to have tested negative for coronavirus from Monday as he begged Britons to ‘stay at home this weekend’. At a Downing Street briefing, the PM warned it was ‘not the time to relax’ as he escalated controls at the country’s borders again. Amid … Read more
Ashley Cain marked a milestone with his baby daughter Azaylia, who is battling a rare type of leukaemia, on Instagram on Saturday. The Ex On The Beach star, 30, said it was the ‘best morning ever’ as he took the four-month-old for a walk down the corridor at Birmingham Children’s Hospital. Ever the doting dad, Ashley … Read more
Ban on travellers from Denmark ends but they must still quarantine – as Estonia and Latvia are also taken off travel corridors list (but you can now travel freely form Mongolia) People arriving in UK from countries not on travel corridors list must self-isolate Department for Transport (DfT) said cases in Estonia has increased by … Read more
Fury of airline bosses as Government uses new regional travel corridors to slap restrictions on SEVEN Greek islands Grant Shapps said move to treat islands as separate would bring relief to travel But no islands were made exempt from quarantine under the new rules The change has ruined the holidays of an estimated 70,000 Britons … Read more
As speculation grows that France could be removed from the UK’s quarantine-free list this week, analysis has found that fourteen other countries also on the list have higher or similar coronavirus figures. Fears are now mounting that all fourteen countries – including France – could be added to the quarantine list, throwing the plans of … Read more