Hundreds of thousands of British tourists crawled to return home after the British government imposed a surprise quarantine deadline amid a spike in coronavirus cases in France.
The British government took the decision Thursday after France reported 2,846 new COVID-19 cases in 24 hours. It allowed British tourists in the country until 4pm on Saturday to leave the country as a two-week mandatory quarantine once they returned.
The quarantine was announced when Britain removed France from a list of countries exempt from travel quarantine requests, and released a crazy line across the border, with 500,000 tourists scrambling to buy train and plane tickets to to return home.
One British mother said she was forced to leave two of her children with her husband in France when she fled with the baby on the last Eurostar train. “I could only find one ticket for me and my baby to come back,” she told Sky News. ‘I had to do this because of my job. My husband and two daughters will be back Monday. … this is all just madness. ”
In addition to France, the British government added the Netherlands, Malta, Monaco and the Caribbean islands of Aruba and Turks & Caicos to the list of quarantines.
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