Hundreds of British tourists forced to quarantine at a luxury ski resort due to fears about the new, more contagious variant of COVID-19 fled under cover of darkness, according to a report.
About 200 of the roughly 420 affected tourists in the UK who were isolated in Verbier, Switzerland are believed to have left overnight, instead of staying home for more than a week and seeing their plans to reach the slopes totally interrupted.
CANADA, JAPAN BETWEEN NATIONS WITH REPORTS OF CORONAVIRUS TENSION INFECTIONS FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM OF RAPID PRESSURE
This follows a decision by the Swiss authorities that anyone arriving in Britain since December 14 would have to be quarantined for 10 days.
A police officer and a police officer (in the center) ride a cable car while patrolling the slopes and specifically in alpine restaurants, to check the application of sanitary measures during the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19), in the alpine resort of Villars-sur-Ollon , Switzerland, Saturday, December 19, 2020. The police receive local support from “civil protection”, civil protection (on the right), in an alpine resort. (Valentin Flauraud / Keystone via AP)
On December 20, Switzerland announced a ban on entry for all UK travelers and suspended all flights between the UK and Switzerland after the detection of the new coronavirus variant in southeastern England.
Then, on December 23, the Swiss government brought an exemption, allowing flights to and from the UK on Christmas Eve to allow residents of the UK and Switzerland to return for the festive period.
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Two cases of the new variant have been detected in Switzerland and one in neighboring Liechtenstein, the Swiss health ministry said on Sunday.
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