Boris Johnson suspended all of Britain’s quarantine-free travel corridors indefinitely last night amid mounting concern about new coronavirus variants.
Everyone travelling to Britain from Monday will have to produce a negative coronavirus test taken within the previous 72 hours and go into immediate isolation for up to ten days.
Scientific advisers said it was “hard to see” when the restrictions would end as new variants continued to emerge, delivering a potentially devastating blow to the travel industry. The prime minister said that after progress with vaccinations “what we don’t want to see is all that work undone by the arrival of a new variant that is vaccine-busting”.
However, there were questions about why he had failed to act sooner, with Labour claiming that delays in
