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Britain’s New Virus Strain Triggers ‘Everything Crisis’
Dec. 23, 2020 (EIRNS) Developments in the United Kingdom over the last 48-72 hours indicate how, in a systemic breakdown crisis, worsening of any one aspect of the crisis triggers a further breakdown everywhere else. The out-of-control new strain of the virus in England caused Europe-wide measures to cut all travel with the U.K.; which led to huge lines of thousands of trucks unable to leave England for continental Europe; which caused panic buying and shortages in stores in the U.K.; and all of this nine days before the Brexit break between the U.K. and Europe is scheduled to go into effect.
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France to reopen border with England for travellers cleared of COVID-19
A man walks past lorries parked on the M20 motorway, as EU countries impose a travel ban from the UK following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, near Ashford, Britain, Dec 22, 2020. (Photo: REUTERS/Simon Dawson)
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LONDON: France will reopen its borders to passengers from England on Wednesday (Dec 23), ending a blockade intended to stop the spread of a new coronavirus variant, but which has held up thousands of lorries before Christmas.
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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 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.