Submitting.
While some tourists are thought to have left immediately upon receiving the order to quarantine, most obeyed the order for a short time, before deciding to leave.
Swiss authorities identified 420 tourists from the UK who were then ordered to quarantine on 20 December.
‘The worst week’
Verbier is an Alpine village ski resort in the Swiss Valais Canton, which is particularly popular with travellers from the UK. They make up approximately one fifth of the tourists who come during the winter season.
Fewer than a dozen of the identified tourists were left in the resort by 20 December, and some have resurfaced across the border in France, according to Swiss officials.