EU to Ban UK Travellers but Singapore is still Relax 1 Corner?

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Covid: EU to discuss response to variant as travel bans on UK expand

European Union officials will discuss later a co-ordinated response to a new, more infectious coronavirus variant in the UK, which has led many countries to impose travel bans.
Germany, France and Italy are among those to suspend flights from the UK. Outbound train services through the Channel Tunnel have also been halted.
Canada is also blocking UK flights.
Health officials say the new variant is up to 70% more transmissible, but there is no evidence that it is more deadly.

 

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There is also no proof to suggest that it reacts differently to vaccines.

 

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UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the new variant was "getting out of control", while Denmark, Italy and the Netherlands announced they had already detected it.

 

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Which European countries have acted and how?
Denmark suspended flights from the UK for 48 hours beginning at 09:00 GMT on Monday.

 

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The Netherlands said it would ban all passenger flights from the UK until 1 January "at the latest". Ferry passengers arriving from the UK would also be barred although freight would continue.

 

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France suspended all travel links, including freight lorries, with the UK for 48 hours from midnight on Sunday. Thousands of lorries move between the countries every day.

 

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In Germany, planes from the UK have not been allowed to land after midnight on Sunday, although cargo would be an exception.

 

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Italy is blocking all flights from the UK until 6 January. Turkey has temporarily banned all flights from the UK as has Switzerland.
Austria is to ban flights from the UK. Bulgaria has suspended flights to and from the UK from midnight but, unlike the short-term measures in many other nations, its ban lasts until 31 January.

 

[laksaboy]

I have a feeling that the PAP regime isn't exactly honest about the number of Covid cases. I know for certain that some buildings are still being barricaded and are designated as 'care facilities', which I suspect are quarantine facilities.

 

[BoonTiong]

I have a feeling that the PAP regime isn't exactly honest about the number of Covid cases. I know for certain that some buildings are still being barricaded and are designated as 'care facilities', which I suspect are quarantine facilities.

So many imported cases in Singapore and I am very curious why SIA never release any data whether their staff are infected?

 

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Canada has suspended entry of all passenger flights from the UK for 72 hours, effective from midnight (05:00 GMT). Passengers who arrived in Canada from the UK on Sunday would be "subject to secondary screening and enhanced measures, including increased scrutiny of quarantine plans", it said.
Other countries and territories to announce restrictions on UK travel include Hong Kong, Israel, Iran, Croatia, Argentina, Chile, Morocco and Kuwait.
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia has suspended all international flights for one week because of the pandemic.

 

[tanwahtiu]

Mother of British Empire on fire.... Karma for slave trades, opium trade, coolie trade....

 

[syed putra]

Brexit is coming thats why. Nothing to do with virus.