* France, Germany, Israel, El Salvador, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Austria and Ireland have banned all flights from Britain
* Boris Johnson will chair a meeting of the Government’s Cobra civil contingencies committee on Monday after a series of countries announced they were stopping flights from the UK, Downing Street has said
* Eurotunnel Le Shuttle has said that the UK-France border will close at 11pm tonight and last train at 9.24pm
* Southern England was plunged into a Tier 4 lockdown in a bid to suppress a 'mutant' strain of coronavirus
* US authorities are looking 'very carefully' into the Covid-19 variant while indicating that a ban on UK travel was not currently on the cards
Britain's supermarket shelves may be emptied after France bans British lorries coming into the country for 48 hours following the discovery of the '70 per cent more infectious' mutant coronavirus strain.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will chair a meeting of the Government’s Cobra civil contingencies committee on Monday after a series of countries announced they were stopping flights from the UK, Downing Street has said.
France has joined Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Israel and El Salvador in banning all flights carrying passengers from the UK.
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WNU Editor: It is too late .... Cases of new strain reported outside of UK – as it happened (The Guardian). More here .... Italy has patient with new strain of virus found in Britain (Reuters).
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