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Covid-19: United Kingdom imposes a quarantine for all arrivals from abroad

2021-01-15T19:02:12.730Z


The United Kingdom announced on Friday January 15 that it would impose as of Monday, in addition to a negative test for Covid-19, a quarantine on all travelers arriving from abroad, ending the exemptions granted to certain countries, for avoid contamination by new variants. Read also: Virus: UK bans arrivals from South America and Portugal The UK is hit hard by a second wave of the epidemic, the


The United Kingdom announced on Friday January 15 that it would impose as of Monday, in addition to a negative test for Covid-19, a quarantine on all travelers arriving from abroad, ending the exemptions granted to certain countries, for avoid contamination by new variants.

Read also: Virus: UK bans arrivals from South America and Portugal

The UK is hit hard by a second wave of the epidemic, the virulence of which is attributed to a variant of the novel coronavirus identified in the country, and the government is trying to stem this surge of cases through vaccination.

More than 3.2 million people have already received a first dose of the vaccine.

After having already announced that a negative test would be mandatory from Monday for arrivals from abroad, the government announced on Friday to end on the same date the quarantine exemptions granted to countries with low rates of contamination, such as Japan or Australia currently.

"

It is precisely because we have the hope of this vaccine and the risk of new strains coming from abroad that we must take additional measures now to prevent these strains from entering the country,

" Boris said. Johnson during a press conference, to explain the new border measures.

Anyone arriving in the United Kingdom will therefore have to remain confined for ten days, a period that can be shortened with a negative screening carried out at least five days after arrival.

Johnson has called on the British to strictly adhere to the containment in place to stem the surge in cases.

"

Really think twice before you leave the house this weekend and only do it if absolutely necessary,

" pleaded Johnson, in a video posted to his Twitter account.

Images of densely visited parks in recent days have prompted authorities to reiterate their calls for caution.

In one of these parks, in Leeds (northern England), hundreds of people took part in a giant snowball fight on Thursday afternoon.

Even though the number of new cases has fallen since containment, the United Kingdom has recorded nearly 56,000 in 24 hours according to the latest report released on Friday.

The number of people hospitalized, more than 37,000, continues to climb and has largely exceeded the peak of the first wave.

More than 87,000 people died within 28 days of testing positive for the coronavirus (+1,280), the worst toll in Europe.

Next week, the number of people hospitalized and dead "will

continue to increase

", anticipates Professor Chris Whitty, chief medical officer for England, because the effects of the confinement "

take some time to be felt

".

Scientists advising the government put the virus reproduction rate (R0) for the UK at between 1.2 and 1.3.


Source: lefigaro

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