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At least two hundred British in Switzerland would have evaded the quarantine ordered by the country’s authorities to stop a possible spread of the variant of the coronavirus, more contagious and therefore more worrying.
The escape
According to reports in the newspaper SonntagsZeitung, about 200 of the 420 tourists in the luxurious alpine resort of Verbier, renamed “Little London”, given that tourists from the Anglo-Saxon country are usually 20% of those who arrive during the winter season, they would have fled in the night as soon as the new measures were introduced. On December 21, the Swiss government retroactively introduced a 10-day quarantine for anyone arriving from the UK starting on December 14, after the detection of the potentially more contagious new variant of Covid-19, and after have been identified. two cases in the country and one in neighboring Liechtenstein. “Many of them remained in quarantine for a day before wandering unnoticed thanks to the cover of darkness,” Jean-Marc Sandoz, spokesman for the municipality of Bagnes, told SZ, calling the whole situation “the worst week than ours” . community ever lived. “
Refund requests
The leak was discovered after hoteliers noticed that visitors fleeing at night had not touched the breakfasts. As explained by the spokesman himself, many of them would have gone to nearby France and many would also have telephoned the hoteliers asking for the refund of the money for the days not spent in the structure. “We understand your anger,” Sandoz added, harshly criticizing the hastily introduced quarantine measures. Switzerland also blocked all flights from the UK and South Africa on December 20, because two new variants of SARS-CoV-2, suspected of being more contagious, were identified in the two countries.
