Coronavirus morning headlines as UK bans travel to South Africa over fears over another new Covid strain
The new strain of Covid found in SA is said to be eve more transmittable than the one found in the south-east of England
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Thousands of lorries still stuck in Kent as France re-opens border Kalila Sangster Lorry drivers walk about on the M20 in Kent where freight traffic is parked up near to Folkestone services whilst the Port of Dover remains closed.
Thousands of lorries and their drivers remain stuck in Kent despite France re-opening the border to drivers with a negative coronavirus test result.
HGV drivers have been stuck in the area since the border was temporarily closed on Sunday night, with business chiefs estimating thousands more are stuck across the UK because of backlogs.
The transport secretary Grant Schapps has called for “patience” from the thousands of stranded drivers, asking drivers to “follow instructions” from British officials in order to “get traffic rolling.”
Britain needs to increase vaccination rate from 350,000 people a week to TWO MILLION and have Tier 4 national lockdown to avoid 45,000 deaths from mutated Kent coronavirus, Sage model warns - but almost 40,000 more will STILL die
Members of SAGE sub-group SPI-M said the variant will infect a lot more people because it spreads faster
There s no proof that it is more dangerous or deadly but more cases will inevitably lead to more deaths
The variant is concentrated in London, the East and South East of England but is spreading elsewhere
Two cases of a second, potentially even faster spreading variant from South Africa were announced last night
Tempers boil over in Dover’s ‘Operation Stuck’ as lorry drivers face Christmas in their cabs I m missing the first Christmas with my newborn baby, says one stranded driver, but I guess we ll do it on Facebook
24 December 2020 • 6:00am
Operation Stack is the code name given by the police and Dover port authorities to manage the flow of heavy goods vehicles when crossings are disrupted over the English Channel. On Wednesday in the gridlock around the port it looked more like Operation Stuck – and tempers started to fray.
Amid the chaos, thousands of road haulage drivers stranded here ever since Sunday’s snap decision by the French government to close its borders in response to a new strain of Covid-19 detected in Britain, watched any final hope of being able to return to spend Christmas with their families rapidly dwindle away.