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  • Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Romania and Ireland have banned all passenger flights from the United kingdom
  • The clampdown will come soon after United kingdom detected a new and more transmittable coronavirus strain
  • Germany and Turkey have also suspended all passenger flights from South Africa

All updates in Common Coordinated Time (UTC/GMT)

01:30 The South American countries of Colombia and Chile have also stated they will be suspending all flights to the Uk above fears about the new pressure.

Colombian President Ivan Duque confirmed the growth as he reported: “From tomorrow flights from Colombia to the United Kingdom and from the United Kingdom to Colombia are suspended.”

Chile has built a equivalent move, cancelling all “direct flights” among Chile and the United Kingdom.

In addition, Chileans and foreigners who reside in Chile who frequented the United Kingdom in the last two months, must perform a required 14-working day quarantine.

The flight ban will acquire result from Tuesday and will last for two months.

01:05 Canada is also banning passenger flights from the Uk in an effort to shut off the new COVID-19 variant sweeping across southern England, according to Canadian media experiences.

00:50 Croatia’s Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic has confirmed his country would sign up for the growing record in “temporarily suspending passenger air targeted visitors from the United kingdom for 48 hours.”

00:45 Kuwait has additional the UK to a record of “high-chance” nations and place a halt to flights.

23:55  Scottish 1st Minister Nicola Sturgeon has urged British Key Minister Boris Johnson to find an extension to the post-Brexit transition period over the want to tackle the new coronavirus strain.

The period is due to end December 31 but Sturgeon reported: “It truly is now imperative that (the) PM seeks an arrangement to extend the Brexit changeover time period. The new COVID strain — and the various implications of it — means we encounter a profoundly severe circumstance, and it calls for our 100% interest.”

22:05 Saudi Arabia has temporarily suspended all global passenger flights in excess of fears about the new coronavirus variant.

The ban will originally continue being in location for one 7 days “until the clinical details about the mother nature of this virus gets to be incredibly apparent,” the kingdom’s Inside Ministry said. The country’s land and sea ports have also been shut, and travellers who have been in a European region in the past 3 months have been requested to get examined for COVID-19.

22:00 In light-weight of the new border limits in France, the port of Dover in the UK will be closed to all accompanied traffic “right until additional discover,” it declared in a tweet on Sunday.

21:50 British Key Minister Boris Johnson will chair an unexpected emergency conference on Monday to focus on the new strain’s impacts on worldwide vacation, especially with regards to the movement of items in and out of the region.

21:35 Switzerland joined the checklist of nations barring flights from the British isles “until finally further more discover” from midnight on Sunday. The European country also limited travel with South Africa.

21:30 Authorities in Italy have detected the presence of the new COVID-19 strain in an personal who lately returned to Rome from the United kingdom.

The statement by the country’s health minister which announced the blocking of flights, also stated that people who had been in the British isles not too long ago will have to also be examined.

21:15 The Baltic states of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia have also introduced in actions to halt entry into their international locations from the United kingdom.

20:55 The Czech Republic has launched stricter quarantine measures for persons arriving from the United kingdom.

Substantial-pace prepare operator Eurostar has canceled trains amongst London, Brussels and Amsterdam beginning Monday, but held trains on the London-to-Paris route.

20:35 Germany’s Inside Ministry has requested law enforcement to promptly begin managing passengers from the United kingdom.

German virologist Christian Drosten reported the new coronavirus pressure experienced yet to be found in Germany.

20:30 Turkey has briefly suspended flights from the British isles, the Netherlands, Denmark and South Africa as a precautionary measure versus the new pressure of the virus, Well being Minister Fahrettin Koca announced.

20:25 Israel has introduced it would ban foreign nationals from getting into the state from the British isles, Denmark and South Africa right after a new COVID strain was detected in all three nations.

Israeli authorities also declared rigorous new rules for nationals returning from these international locations, expressing they would be confined to quarantine in hotels operate by the Israeli military, according to a joint assertion by Primary Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office and the Ministry of Health and fitness.

20:20 Bulgaria will not let foreigners touring from the United kingdom into the place from midnight onwards, right after owning cancelled all flights from the British isles until eventually December 31 thanks to fears above the new coronavirus mutation.

The entry ban, in the beginning in force until eventually the conclude of the 12 months, influences all people who get there in Bulgaria by land, sea or air and who have experienced the United kingdom as their place of departure.

20:10 El Salvador has banned travelers who have been in the United kingdom or South Africa in the very last 30 times or whose flights included a layover in individuals nations. The ban would go into result straight away, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announced on Twitter. 

19:49 Romania explained it experienced banned all flights to and from the Uk for two months setting up Monday afternoon.

19:44 Austria’s Health Ministry told the APA information company that it would also impose a flight ban, the aspects of which ended up still currently being talked about.

19:30 A German authorities source claimed the United kingdom journey restriction could be adopted by the full 27-member European Union and that countries ended up also talking about a joint response around sea, street and rail hyperlinks with the British isles, French information agency AFP reported.

Citing “talks in between industry experts at European authorities,” German Overall health Minister Jens Spahn explained to public broadcaster ZDF that “in accordance to anything we know so significantly” the new strain “has no effects on the vaccines”, which remain “just as effective.”

19:25 Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said he was issuing a flight ban for 24 hrs commencing at midnight “out of precaution.” The country also stopped train inbound links to the British isles, together with the Eurostar.

“There are a wonderful a lot of thoughts about this new mutation,” De Croo said, adding he hoped to have extra data by Tuesday.

19:20 Sweden will impose travel constraints on travellers from the United kingdom, Swedish public Broadcaster SVT has reported.

“We are preparing a final decision to ban entry from the British isles. It need to appear into outcome as shortly as attainable,” Minister for Household Affairs Mikael Damberg told SVT. The official decision is set to get spot on Monday.

18:20 France is banning all vacation from the Uk for 48 several hours as component of attempts to prevent a new strain of the coronavirus  from reaching its shores.

A statement from the prime minister’s office explained that the 48-hour interval would acquire authorities time to come across a “common doctrine” on how to address the threat, adding that “flows of people today or transport to the British isles are not influenced.”

18:15  German Wellbeing Minister Jens Spahn introduced Germany is “banning all passenger flights from the United kingdom to Germany as of midnight.”

The decision arrives after several European countries set a halt to all flights coming from the British isles.

“Tomorrow we strategy to restrict all travel to GB (Excellent Britain) & South Africa with a govt purchase in mild of the reviews around a mutation of the virus,” Spahn tweeted.

18:00 Italy, the Netherlands, Ireland, and Belgium have also banned all passenger flights from the Uk.

You can browse a lot more about it in our different story masking modern top rated coronavirus updates.

The Dutch governing administration created the decision after discovering a circumstance in the Netherlands of the new coronavirus pressure that has been circulating all over the British isles.

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