The Government’s weekly in-out Covid quarantine Hokey Cokey is driving holidaymakers up the wall, sparking crazy scrambles to get home in time to beat sudden 4am self-isolation deadlines.
It’s also infuriating the beleaguered travel industry, which is calling for more regional air corridors and airport testing on arrival in Britain.
What many UK travellers may not realise is that there’s a small holiday island not far away where they speak English, use sterling and have been successfully carrying out coronavirus airport (and ferry port) testing for more than two months, almost eliminating 14-day quarantines.
Jersey, largest of the Channel Islands, opened its borders on July 3 and since then has carried out more than 103,000 tests at a cost