COVID-19: More action could be taken on borders to prevent variants, PM suggests

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The government could take more action on border closures amid the sustained COVID-19 death rate, the prime minister has said.

Speaking at Friday's Downing Street news conference, Boris Johnson said:"I really don't rule out that we may need to take further measures still.

"We may need to go further to protect our borders because we do not want after all the effort we are going to in this country... to put that at risk by having a new variant come back in." As it stands, travellers arriving in the UK must quarantine for 10 days on arrival, and have had a negativeThe only flight bans the UK has in place are from South America and Portugal, after a new variant was discovered in Brazil earlier this month.

 

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Stable door.

Too little, too late....

Just delaying the inevitable 🙃

Really His like 10 months to late 😂

YES OK ITS ONLY 11 MONTHS LATE YES THAT IS RIGHT 11 MOTHS LATE !! YES I KNOW THAT IS INSANE MEGA CRAZY BUT ITS TRUE IT IS 11 MONTHS LATE !!! YUP MADNESS AND STUPID RIGHT !! BUT LETS TELL IT HOW IT IS !! IT IS 11 MONTHS !! YES 11 MONTHS LATE !!! MADNESS !!!!

Just close them, stop fu**ing about.

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