23 Dec 2020 / 03:14 H.
* France to let travellers return home if they test negative
* EU Commission recommends lifting blanket UK travel bans
* Trucks stuck in queues in England
* UK isolated for second day as world closes borders
* EXPLAINER-The new coronavirus variant: (Recasts with plan to end border closure)
By Philip Blenkinsop and Guy Faulconbridge
BRUSSELS/LONDON, Dec 22 (Reuters) - 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 its borders to Britain after a mutated coronavirus variant was discovered spreading swiftly across southern England.