The United Kingdom has reimposed on Thursday in a quarantine for travellers from France and the netherlands, due to an increase in the number of cases of Covid-19 in these two countries. This measure also relates to Monaco and Malta, as well as Turks & Caicos, and Aruba, stressed the british minister of Transport Grant Shapps on Twitter. “If you arrive in the Uk after 4 hours (3 hours GMT) Saturday from these locations, you will need to place yourself in solitary confinement for 14 days,” he added. This could cause a massive return of some 500,000 british tourists currently on vacation in France.
The United Kingdom had initially imposed a quarantine global to all visitors arriving on its territory, but has subsequently exempted some countries from this measure according to the incidence of the virus among them. But London had re-established the quarantine for travellers arriving from Spain at the end of July, taking by surprise the airlines and thousands of Britons on holiday in this country.
41 , 000 deaths in the United Kingdom
The british government had done the same last week for Andorra, Belgium and the Bahamas. The United Kingdom is the country with the most mournful in Europe by the pandemic, with more than 41 000 people died in the Covid-19