Ahead of Christmas and New Year celebrations, a number of European countries like Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Ireland and the Netherlands have gone on to ban flight and freight exchanges with the UK on Sunday due to the new variant of COVID-19 being detected in the latter. This urgency comes amid the UK and the European Union negotiating terms of Brexit in which headway is yet to be made. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will reportedly hold an emergency meeting to find ways to resume the flow of transportation into the United Kingdom on Monday.
France’s Prime Minister Jean Castex has announced that his country too, along with several other European nations, has decided to ban traffic from the UK. He tweeted, “Considering the new health risks and pending their assessment, all arrivals from the United Kingdom to France are suspended from midnight for 48 hours for all transport means.”
