Soon after English Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on new virus in his country, rest of the nations in the world stopped their flights to United Kingdom. European Nations are in quick to respond on new virus in UK.
They officially closed the land borders with England. All these developments were happened within a day that caused inconvenience to trade and business men among the nations. Seafood shipments from the UK to Europe are affected by border closures in France. All people travelling from the UK into France are required to show proof of a negative Coronavirus test taken within the previous 72 hours.
Over 1,500 lorries and trucks are stranded in Kent which is the border to France and the number is set to grow as Tesco warns of fruit and vegetable shortages over Christmas. Highways in England have confirmed that heavy traffic jam caused in Kent and are waiting to get into the port of Dover. More areas of England could be put into Tier 4 from Boxing Day while a mass testing programme was due to get under way to alleviate congestion at the border between France and the UK. France will reopen its borders to passengers from England on Wednesday, ending a blockade intended to stop the spread of a new coronavirus variant, but which has held up thousands of lorries before Christmas.
Much of the world shut borders to Britain after a significantly more transmissible mutated coronavirus variant was discovered spreading swiftly across southern England. With queues of trucks snaking to the horizon in England and some supermarket shelves stripped just days before Christmas, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson scrambled to get French President Emmanuel Macron to lift a ban on freight from Britain. It seems there will be more difficult decisions to be made by business leaders across the country in the coming days. The new variant of coronavirus is believed to spread much more quickly and has forced vast swathes of southeast England into a Tier 4 lockdown less than a week before Christmas.
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