The French resolution comes after the United Kingdom added a country to the quarantine list such as the Netherlands, Malta, the Turks and Caicos Islands and Aruba.
Chloe McCardel, 35, will leave the British coast at 10 a.m. on Sunday and arrive in Calais around 10 a.m. and 34 km later.
It would be her 35th successful Channel crossing, passing the men’s record of 34 held by British athlete Kevin Murphy.
Follow an announcement Thursday night that other people arriving in the UK from France after 4am on Saturday should spend 14 days in self-isolation due to the growing number of coronavirus cases across the Channel.
McCardel told the PA agency:
I did something about what happens when I got to France.
Literally, I succeed on the shore and stay on the ground for a few minutes, then go back to the water, swim to the boat and back to England.
We’re not going anywhere near any border or passport officers, so I hope that quarantine will not technically apply.
I planned a little party in England with the help team, the team, the volunteers who have been a great help in all this.
So I hope the government will allow us to do that by having to quarantine.
McCardel has won a special exemption from the Australian government to the UK to make three round trips in recent weeks, taking up his point with Murphy.
The Melbourne-raised athlete still has a lot to go through until she reaches the record of 43 crosses set by English swimmer Alison Streeter.
Private charter carrier PrivateFly said the call for flights from countries removed from the UK quarantine waiver list had tripled since Thursday night’s announcement.
General Manager Adam Twidell said:
As a result of adjustments to the UK quarantine list overnight, we earned an increase in the call for personal jet outside the gates of the affected countries, with 3 times the average number of requests and bookings for flights to the UK from France, the Netherlands and Malta, before 4am on Saturday morning.
We’ve also won a number of consumer requests that booked a vacation to those destinations in the coming weeks to modify their plans and avoid quarantine areas.
He added that availability is as peak demand coincides with peak summer season.
British visitors to France may face a two-week quarantine, as the French government has threatened retaliation after being removed from the UK safe list following an increase in coronavirus cases.
But the Netherlands, which was also removed from the list of runners on Thursday night, ruled out reciprocal measures.
From four o’clock on Saturday morning BST, arrivals from France and the Netherlands to the UK must be quarantined for two weeks or face a fine, the UK government announced.
French European Affairs Minister Clement Beaune tweeted that the government lamented the British resolution that would “lead to a reciprocity measure,” while adding “the hope of returning to normal as soon as possible.”
Transport Minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari echoed these comments and tweeted: “I have told my counterpart Grant Shapps that we need to harmonize the fitness protocols to a higher point of coverage on both sides of the Channel.”
But the Dutch government has ruled the eye-for-eye measures, added the UK to an orange list, which warns travellers from the Netherlands who oppose non-essential visits, due to the 14-day quarantine they face in the UK. .
“We will not take reciprocal action,” said a foreign ministry spokesman. “Our particular notice states that readers from the UK to the Netherlands do not want to be quarantined upon arrival in the Netherlands.”
The government is expected to soon verify that Greater Manchester, parts of eastern Lancashire and West Yorkshire will be subject to stricter closure restrictions than the rest of England.
On Thursday, officials in Oldham feared that the city, one of the ten districts of Greater Manchester, would be further blocked by the central government after the number of cases continued much faster than in the rest of the region. it had a rate of 107.5 consistent with 100,000 inhabitants, compared to 57.8 last week.
To put this in context, the British government is finding other people returning from France, as its rate has risen above 20, in line with another 100,000 people. according to this research on the oldham Council’s practical knowledge.
At his weekly press convention on Thursday, Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, said he thought it would make sense to appoint Oldham for further action, for now.
Closing pubs and department stores wouldn’t necessarily make a difference, as maximum infections come from other families that combine, for example, at house parties, which are lately illegal by the rules, or from other people who get angry at the paintings and then bring back Covid’s circle. family members.
The latter has been a specific challenge in Oldham’s Asian communities, which tend to live in giant multigenerational families near the city center.
In the 28 days leading up to 7 August, the number of cases in Oldham concerned the British Asian/Asian group. But when you look at the pandemic as a whole, most of the cases occurred on the Oldham white network.
The government has reached agreements that it says will quickly give British citizens 90 million doses of two other possible Covid-19 vaccines.
Vaccines are developed through the US biotechnology company Novavax and the Belgian-based pharmaceutical company Janssen, owned by Johnson and Johnson.
Since the agreements in principle, the UK has received 60 million doses of the Novavax vaccine, supporting a phase 3 clinical trial with the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
Approximately 30 million doses were received from Janssen and ministers agreed in principle to co-finance a global clinic for their vaccine.
The new agreements, in addition to previous agreements, mean that the UK now has six other applicants for the developing Covid-19 vaccine, in 4 other types, representing around 340 million doses.
Despite the length of the government’s potential reserve, Kate Bingham, chair of the government’s vaccine working group, warned that it is not clear that any vaccines are effective.
Speaking to ITV’s Good Morning Britain on Friday, he said
The challenge is that we know which of these vaccines, if any, can work because there has been no vaccine that opposes a human coronavirus.
So we decided on six of the most promising vaccines in 4 other types of vaccines and expect one of them to work.
It would be a smart position if everyone worked, but it’s likely. The truth is that the maximum will fail and we must make sure that if one of them is effective and safe, we are entitled to it.
Bingham said he was “reasonably certain” that a vaccine would be discovered that would reduce the severity of coronavirus symptoms and reduce deaths.
The government’s most recent agreement follows the 90 million doses underway in agreements with a partnership between pharmaceutical giants BioNtech and Pfizer, such as Valneva.
About one hundred million doses of vaccine can come from a vaccine developed through the University of Oxford in partnership with AstraZeneca, while an agreement has been reached for 60 million doses of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and the possible Covid-19 vaccine from Sanofi Pasteur.
It offers canopy 4 other classes: adenoviral vaccines, mNSA vaccines, inactivated total virus vaccines and vaccines with protein adjuvant.
Business Secretary Alok Sharma said
The government’s strategy of building a promising vaccine portfolio will ensure that we have the most productive possibility imaginable of finding one that works.
Today’s agreements will not only gain advantages for British citizens, but will make a vaccine around the world fair and equitable, potentially protective burdens of millions of lives.
Alex Harris, head of global policy at the Wellcome Trust, said he welcomed the Sharma statement, but that it is “urgent” that the government how it will ensure fair and equitable access to a vaccine.
Without this clarity, there is a greater threat of other countries seeking similar bilateral agreements, possibly ensuring significant oversfert, leaving inadequate volumes of vaccines for the rest of the world.
The government will have to take the lead at the global point to ensure that all progress in testing, treating and saving Covid-19 is available to all nations, rich and poor. It’s not just the right thing to do, it’s what interests us most.
Unless each and every country has access to Covid-19 vaccines and treatments, the world is at risk.
The government has stated that if Novavax and Janssen vaccines are found to be a success in clinical trials, they may be sent to the UK until mid-2021.
Vaccines will first be given to precedence teams, such as frontline fitness workers, others with serious illnesses, the elderly and ethnic minorities.
The first exercise that arrived from Paris on Friday was not full, those who traveled in it said, and few of those on board were returning British tourists.
Carina Ignatiuc, who had stayed with her two children in Paris with her mother and intended to be there until the 21st, one of the few who had heard the news and controlled to make the reservation in time to take the Gare Du Nord 0743 – having yet no selection to return for reasons of the circle of relatives Said.
I saw him online at about 11 and part last night.
We didn’t do any ebook. We had to locate the money, book tickets online and Eurostar replaced the costs, in minutes.
It was 80 euros, then I looked a few minutes later and 160 euros, then 290 euros a few minutes later.
Ignatiuc, whose young men fortunately got in the luggage cart as he spoke, said she was “exhausted.” I started packing around one o’clock, and then I had to lift the little kids up at five o’clock, and they had no idea what was going on… I like it, hello girls! Let’s go to the train! »
The timing of the announcement is ridiculous, he added. “I don’t think it’s fair for anyone to give that kind of opinion,” he said. “If I’m inflamed today, I’m inflamed today, what else tomorrow?”
However, as she walked away, she was relieved to have succeeded.
If Eurostar tickets look steep, travelers are looking to do the same adventure through the plane.
At the time of writing, there were only two seats left with Charles De Gaulle’s British Airways at Heathrow, yours for 451 euros each.
As for the sudden increase in costs, a Eurostar spokesman said, “It’s a matter of demand, and that’s how our costs work.”
Airline industry representatives criticized the advent of quarantine regulations for travelers from many new countries, adding to France and the Netherlands, saying it is “another devastating blow” to the industry.
Tim Alderslade, managing director of the industry company Airlines UK, said:
This is another devastating blow to the industry that is already recovering from the worst crisis in its history.
There is a pressing need for political will to move to a subnational quarantine approach, in addition to a control regime for arriving passengers, so that those who mark negative may have to isolate themselves, whatever other countries like Germany have already done. implemented – is urgently sought.
He added that weekly adjustments to quarantine regulations at the national point “have turned out to be so disruptive to airlines and passengers.”
Gloria Guevara, President of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), said:
The WTTC is deeply disappointed that thousands of British tourists have noticed that their holidays have been ruined, now the UK government has added more countries to its quarantine list, adding summer holiday destinations, France and Malta.
While we agree that public fitness should remain the most sensible priority, this resolution will overcome the lack of confidence in the fragile tourism sector.
She said the UK was “clearly lagging behind other countries” in the use of quarantines rather than comprehensive testing programmes.
“International coordination and testing for anyone who needs to go on holiday to help prevent the Covid-19 on their way is to save 3 million jobs in the UK alone,” he added.
A new YouGov poll found that 4 out of ten Scots (40%) oppose the English coming to Scotland if they have to be quarantined on arrival, and the ballot shows a significant difference of opinion along the political lines.
More than one part (54%) the SNP electorate surveyed said they did not need English tourists to cross the border uninsured, compared to 37% of the Scottish Labour electorate and 19% of those who voted for Scottish Conservatives in the 2019 election. . Training
Those who oppose the lack of quarantine are outnumbered by 47% of Scots who are comfortable with the fact that English tourists can still enter.
Last month, Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon refused to rule out the introduction of quarantine or the detection of travellers from England if the infection increased south of the border.
He also suggested to the handful of independence supporters who staged sporadic protests at the border, holding banners that said they “keep Scotland Covid free, to stop their activities, describing them as “immovable or useful.”
Former Scottish Conservative leader Jackson Carlaw blamed the Scottish nationalists, whom he accused of “feeding department in each and every shift.”
People living in one of Covid-19’s most stringently measured spaces have gained a stern warning that measures are needed to stop infection rates.
While the government has made a decision on restrictions across England, the worsening scenario at Calderdale in West Yorkshire has been detailed through Regional Director of Public Health, Debs Harkins.
Harkins appealed to the 200,000 citizens of the municipality when Calderdale Council introduced its own tap search service to run the national program.
He said componenticular fear in Halifax, where infection rates in some areas of the city are now higher than in any component of Leicester, Blackburn with Darwen or Luton.
Harkins said:
Being the voice of destiny is natural to me.
But I’m sorry to say that today I am writing this to highlight the seriousness of the stage in Calderdale and to ask him about you in the fight opposite Covid-19.
When we look at the trends in the cases shown in Calderdale, it is transparent that too many restrictions have been lifted too quickly.
In some parts of Halifax in particular, infection rates are among those in the country.
The scenario can be temporarily replaced and, as I write this, there is no dominance in Leicester, Blackburn with Darwen or Luton where infection rates are higher than we can see in parts of Halifax.
There is no evidence that these higher rates are due to the fact that the citizens of Calderdale are less likely to revel in social estrangement than others in other parts of the country; In fact, the opposite is true.
Harkins said the district had some of the lowest infection rates in the country after closing and that available data indicated that there were new instances in key positions.
“It’s the other people who take care of us, feed us, serve us and send us,” he said.
“Since the blockade has relaxed, those are the other people who will probably come into contact with Covid-19. It’s the other people who deserve to be celebrated rather than blame them.”
Calderdale will launch its own touch search service on Friday, theme for final government approval, which will work hand-in-hand with the NHS’s national testing and tracking service.
Harkins said: “It is also vital that we all perceive that if we want to put those movements into effect successfully, our infection rate will increase before we decrease. This is because we want to locate more people with Covid-19, so that they can be helped to isolate themselves to reduce the spread of the virus”.
Calderdale is one of the 3 regions of west Yorkshire to which stricter blocking measures were applied a fortnight ago, with several local governments in the other aspect of the Pennines.
Data released Wednesday showed that Calderdale as a total had the ninth highest number of new cases in England with 44.5 more cases consistent with another 100,000 people in the seven days before August 9. This is an increase of 39.7 in the past consistent with the year.
There is still a lot of confusion about when quarantine will take effect for travellers from France, the Netherlands, Monaco, Malta, the Turks and Caicos Islands and Aruba, after shipping secretary Grant Shapps said last night on Sky News that it will apply from Sunday, despite the official announcement of 4am on Saturday.
Here’s a clip that pops up the moment Shapps says regulations start on Sunday:
This is directly at odds with Shapps’ tweet, which clears the date at 4am on Saturday.
However, several newspapers reported in the past that the new regulations took effect on Sunday, suggesting that even official briefings were wrong.
And I say goodbye and hello to Jessica Murray, who now takes over.
Another disgruntled tourist in France:
My brother-in-law and my circle of relatives have been living with us lately in our house in France. They intended to leave Monday night, but last night they saw honest Grant’s announcement on Sky News.
They temporarily connected and controlled the purchase of a new Eurotunnel price ticket in the afternoon, paying 230 euros. Of course, they were surprised to wake up and notice that quarantine begins at 4 a.m.
Of course, they are incredibly disappointed and angry and will now have to be quarantined with 6-year-old twins. Why didn’t he acknowledge his mistake and have an effect on him?
Kindly, Amanda Hill
I just won an attractive but also deeply disturbing email from a reader that reveals what it’s like to be quarantined in the UK:
My call is Tim and I recently returned from Belgium. It turns out that there is widespread confidence that the British government has something about those returning from the countries on the list. That’s not true.
I intend to brag that I have complied with the ‘rules’, but that is the truth.
The form you fill out asks permission to call or text you, your permission! If they call you, they ask you some questions: “Are you home?”, I answered “Yes, I am.” That’s right.
Whether it’s other countries, for example Singapore, where you’re locked in your room, or former CIS countries where you have to download an app and percentage of your location, the UK is a joke.
My neighbor who returned from a “listed” country arrived at Stansted Airport, where he asked him to show the form. He repainted and told his boss that he had been in Scotland (despite his tan).
Aaaand – who accepted the “honest” concession to his (original) word that quarantine would take up position on Sunday:
Oh, no! Another victim of Grant Shapps’ inability to perceive that on Saturday at 4 a.m. It does not mean Sunday:
Hello Amelia, YES! We were naive enough that Grant would be truly “honest.” Our ferry departs France at 08:30 on Saturday. So the biggest dilemma right now is whether deciding on Cummings’s line “I used my most productive judgment” or Shapps-ian’s promise “my word is my obligation.” Yours, Trevor de Brexitland
I am looking forward to hearing feedback from anyone caught up in ‘Honest’ Grant, who obviously wants to go back to Y1 to know the difference between morning and afternoon.
I won an email from Michael Cosgrove in Lyon, France:
Here are some facts for other people returning today from the south of France. The official French traffic monitoring authority (Bison Futé) has announced that due to heavy traffic, drivers are invited to the main motorway (the A7) between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m., especially between Marseille and Salon-de-Provence. Traffic will also be heavy from 10.00 to 20.00 hours between Orange and Lyon.
In other words, in undeniable terms, British tourists who drive home from the south of France leave early and give the time long enough to succeed in the north of the country.
So here you are: if you’re running away from France, run away temporarily and run early.
After the Saturday/Sunday mystery of the French forties. It turns out that Shapps himself doesn’t perceive what Saturday means at four o’clock in the morning:
Another James has just contacted me, regarding my previous article that British tourists in France are charged a lot of pounds to get a house before quarantine restrictions are imposed.
James says:
Hello Amelia, I mean your blog post live on airfares in France. EasyJet flies from CDG to Gatwick for £39 tonight, and even BA flies from CDG to LHR for £66 as well.
I am very pleased to be corrected – and help direct those who are on a way home today, to locate one without paying for the nose.
Oh, it’s interesting now. Grant Shapps told tourists that new quarantine regulations would arrive on Sunday and not On Saturday, as has now been confirmed.
I won a tweet from James, lately in France. He says so, and kindly provided the video in which Shapps claims Sunday is the key date.
I just wanted to send you a little message because I saw your politics of chaos in France and I think our history might interest you.
We are on holiday in France and now we have heard the news of an impending quarantine. As a result, we spent all day waiting for an ad to come back sooner.
When that came through an interview with Grant Shapps on Sky News, he said it would be starting Sunday. We booked our Channel Tunnel temporarily for Saturday afternoon, but now we woke up today to see it replaced until Saturday.
So not only are we losing a lot of pounds, but we’ll also have to quarantine ourselves when we get back. We’re so angry and disappointed that we won’t be able to see the family circle as planned. We don’t know what to do because all tickets for today are already booked.
I hope God comes back, because my mom has cancer and we intended to see her at home.
All tourists who have passed through Shapps-petard himself, send me a message: @throughameliahill or [email protected]
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