Italy is to join other European countries in imposing a ban on passenger flights from Britain, the foreign minister said, as the British government warned that a new more infectious strain of the virus was "out of control".
As the World Health Organization (WHO) urged its European members to strengthen measures against a new variant of Covid-19 circulating in Britain, the Netherlands imposed a ban on UK flights from this morning and Belgium said it would follow suit from midnight with ban on planes and trains from the UK.
Eurostar trains between Belgium and the UK have been cancelled from tomorrow. No trains will run between London, Brussels and Amsterdam.