Brits flee quarantine as Switzerland given short notice about new variants
The Swiss health minister calls the sudden change in quarantine rules for visitors from the UK and SA an impossible situation
28 December 2020 - 16:50
Zurich — Hundreds of Britons have fled quarantine in the Swiss ski resort of Verbier, with the country’s health minister attributing the exodus to an “impossible situation” in which authorities moved at short notice to contain new variants of the coronavirus.
On December 21, the Swiss government ordered people who had arrived from the UK and SA since December 14 to undergo a 10-day quarantine to prevent the spread of two different and more contagious variants of the coronavirus. It also halted flights before allowing them to resume a few days later so stranded visitors could return home...
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