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Swiss authorities identified 420 British guests before Christmas and quarantined them. Fifty left immediately, and fewer than a dozen of the 370 who remained at the complex stayed there on Sunday, the spokesperson explained.
“We understand your annoyance,” he added, harshly criticizing the sudden retroactive quarantine obligation imposed on those coming from Britain. Families with young children were suddenly closed to 20 square feet. It was unbearable, he said.
Britons who left for France have found winter resorts closed due to epidemiological restrictions and, like Switzerland, must remain in quarantine there.
Switzerland closed flights from Great Britain and the Republic of South Africa on December 20 due to new, more contagious mutations in the coronavirus identified in those two countries. Since then, the new mutation has been infected in several countries.
On December 21, the Swiss authorities ordered the quarantine of the British and South Africans to remain in the Alpine country for a week for 10 days after arrival.
Around Christmas, around 50,000 guests stay in Verbier each week, roughly a fifth of them from Britain, which has now put off local guests, further exacerbating the hotel’s financial woes. “Many Swiss have canceled their holidays,” Sandoz said, adding that hotels currently only operate at 30 to 40 percent occupancy.
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