Kent lorry chaos could get WORSE: Officials are performing as few as 200 tests an hour - meaning 10,000 stranded truckers could take DAYS to clear threatening food shortages after clashes with police and blockades
Truckers try to force their way past police guarding Port of Dover as hundreds leave cabs and walk along road
Jeering and whistling with some shouting: Open the border , We just want to go home and F you, Boris!
France announced travel ban on all traffic from UK on Sunday night after emergence of new Covid-19 strain
Decision meant Port of Dover was dramatically closed to all freight vehicles leaving the UK for next 48 hours
Testing, testing! UK and France wrangle over screening regime for truckers to get Dover moving again after Brussels calls for end to border blockade as 4,000 more lorries head for Kent carpark
France announced travel ban on all traffic from UK on Sunday night after emergence of new Covid-19 strain
Decision meant Port of Dover was dramatically closed to all freight vehicles leaving the UK for next 48 hours
UK and France still trying to agree on measures to reopen the border as hundreds of lorries queue in Kent
EU today urged European nations to drop travel bans on UK but said travel to Britain should be discouraged
Today European Commission urged 25 other states to lift blanket travel bans
Countries around the world have halted UK arrivals over new infectious strain
Tough new measures adopted by Greece and Cyprus
Travellers from Britain will have to meet the following requirements to enter both countries.
Greece:
Rapid lateral flow test on arrival followed by 10 days of self-isolation;
A second PCR test afterwards.
Cyprus:
PCR on arrival, followed by seven days in self-isolation;
A second PCR test afterwards.
Greece and Cyprus will require passengers from the UK to have three separate Covid tests to gain entry to stem the spread of a mutant strain of the virus - while all other EU member states have slammed their doors on Britain.
Boris Johnson plans to test ALL lorry drivers taking goods across Channel in bid to appease Macron - after blustering through pointless press conference without giving a single answer about when truckers will be allowed into France
Port of Dover in Kent was dramatically closed to all freight vehicles leaving the UK for the next 48 hours
Hauliers coming to UK will still be allowed but there are fears drivers won t travel to avoid being marooned
Countries including France, Germany, Italy, Belgium and Poland have announced restrictions on UK travel
Comes after emergence of mutant strain of coronavirus in England which spreads quicker than predecessor
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Hundreds of passengers at London s Heathrow Airport scrambled onto the last flight to Dublin, Ireland
France, Germany, Israel, El Salvador, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Italy, Finland, Denmark, Turkey, Morocco, Canada, Belgium, Austria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Ireland have banned all flights from Britain
Boris Johnson will chair a meeting of the Government’s Cobra civil contingencies committee on Monday after a series of countries announced they were stopping flights from the UK, Downing Street has said
Eurotunnel Le Shuttle has said that the UK-France border will close at 11pm tonight and last train at 9.24pm
Southern England was plunged into a Tier 4 lockdown in a bid to suppress a mutant strain of coronavirus