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About 200 British tourists, who were to spend a ten-day quarantine at a ski resort in the Swiss city of Verbier, fled at night, it was reported today.
These approximately 200 British tourists are part of a group of 420 covered by the quarantine measures imposed by the Swiss Government on travelers from the United Kingdom, after the appearance in that country of a new variant of the covid-19 virus, according to the AFP news agency. .
Tourists are quarantined at the Verbier ski resort, located in the commune of Bagnes, a popular destination for the British.
As explained by the head of communications for the Bagnes commune, Jean-Marc Sandoz, after the implementation of these restrictions, on December 14, some British tourists decided to return to the United Kingdom, but others ended up staying at the Verbier ski resort. .
“You can’t blame them. For most, the quarantine was unsustainable. Imagine four people moving around in a 20 square meter hotel room ”, he justified.
Jean Sandoz said the escape of British tourists was only detected after hotel staff noticed that the food trays remained intact.
The new strain of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus identified in the United Kingdom, presented as the most contagious and which is causing concern to the world, is already circulating in several countries and territories, within and outside Europe.
Also today, the new variant of the coronavirus was detected on the island of Madeira.
After the identification of this new variant of SARS-CoV-2, several countries, inside and outside Europe, decided to suspend connections, specifically air, with the United Kingdom, a list that has been growing in recent hours.
The British strain of the virus has also been detected, at least, in Portugal (Madeira Island), Sweden, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Denmark, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Canada, South Africa and Japan.
The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,758,026 deaths derived from more than 80.2 million cases of contagion around the world, according to a report prepared by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected at the end of December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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