COVID-19 isolation on Tuesday after much of the world cut off travel ties due to a highly infectious new coronavirus strain, halting one of Europe’s most important trade routes just days before the Brexit cliff edge.With queues of trucks snaking to the horizon in England and supermarket shelves stripped just days before Christmas, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson scrambled to get French President Emmanuel Macron to lift a ban on freight from Britain.
U.S. mulls restrictions for U.K. travellers amid new coronavirus strain: reports Johnson and his advisers said the mutated variant of the novel coronavirus, which could be up to 70 per cent more transmissible, was spreading rapidly but that it had been identified because British.