UK to close ALL travel corridors from Monday

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• ChrisC says:

  15 Jan15 January 17:20

  Are they going to enforce it though? Not just a phone call but visits from the police or enforcement agencies

  Without enforcement people will just go out and about as though nothing has happened!

  • John says:

    15 Jan15 January 17:22

    They have been enforcing it for South Africa arrivals so I guess they will enforce the South America ones too.

    • yorkieflyer says:

      15 Jan15 January 17:54

      Have they?

      • The real John says:

        15 Jan15 January 19:27

        Yes, someone reported police visiting them in HFP comments a few days ago, and similar stories seen on other forums

        • yorkieflyer says:

          15 Jan15 January 20:50

          ok if you say so

  • Jon says:

    15 Jan15 January 17:59

    They don’t have the man power do they? So many officers are off self isolating themselves because they or a member of their household has tested positive. In Surrey one district is down by 2/3rds! And they are very busy dealing with domestics and have little time for visiting traveller returning home.

    • The real John says:

      15 Jan15 January 19:30

      Well, they are not going to visit everyone but some forces have visited some people. If you live in that district of Surrey then I guess you can go out if you wish

• Mike says:

  15 Jan15 January 17:22

  This is a very good measure and I see it applies to the CTA, which is excellent news as Ireland has the highest infection rate in the World.

  There was no justification in keeping GB open to Irish arrivals. Ireland should have been banned long ago.

  • The real John says:

    15 Jan15 January 22:04

    Where does it say people coming from Ireland will need to self-isolate?

• Andrew says:

  15 Jan15 January 17:27

  I thought Antigen tests were being accepted for inbound travel?

  • Rob says:

    15 Jan15 January 17:28

    Had they published the requirements?

    • meta says:

      15 Jan15 January 17:33

      Yes they have two days ago. PCR, antigen and LAMPall accepted, but there is a sensitivity range requirement.

• ChrisW says:

  15 Jan15 January 17:27

  Very few places on that list that still have direct flights to the UK. If you have to transit somewhere not on that list to get home you have to quarantine anyway.

  So, I doubt this will impact many people.

  • yorkieflyer says:

    15 Jan15 January 18:05

    Bugger, that wrecks my RTW ticket to South Georgia, Antarctic, Micronesia and Diego Garcia

• Andrew says:

  15 Jan15 January 17:28

  Excellent news. Hopefully it stays in place until then summer by which time a lot of people will have been vaccinated.

• Nick_C says:

  15 Jan15 January 17:31

  The recorded infection rate in Ireland only overtook ours on Jan 6th, not very long ago at all.

  https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=earliest..latest&country=GBR~IRL&region=World&casesMetric=true&interval=smoothed&perCapita=true&smoothing=7&pickerMetric=location&pickerSort=asc

• Alastair says:

  15 Jan15 January 17:33

  Every day this whole thing starts to look more like tit-for-tat political posturing than actual thought out policy.

  • yorkieflyer says:

    15 Jan15 January 17:56

    Exactly, apart from the Czech Republic and Ireland we are the worst offenders in Europe and banned from traveling virtually anywhere!

    • GeorgeJ says:

      15 Jan15 January 18:09

      Not actually the case, but why let data get in the way of ignorance.

      • yorkieflyer says:

        15 Jan15 January 18:42

        Who is ignorant? See CWS on Flyertalk for the 14 day ECDC figures as at Monday 13 January.
        https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/coronavirus-travel/2016518-uk-government-announces-10-day-self-isolation-negative-covid-test-arrivals-351.html

• Andrew says:

  15 Jan15 January 17:36

  And Chris Whitty saying that it will be Spring, after Easter, before anything changes – arguing with Boris when the Spring is, but seemingly he was meaning May not April.

  • ChrisW says:

    15 Jan15 January 17:40

    I would expect a gradual relaxing of restrictions in April (i.e. pubs, hairdressers, restaurants etc reopening) with far more freedom in May.

    • Andrew says:

      15 Jan15 January 17:43

      I’m expecting it to be a month later than those estimates – and shops opening in April, but hospitality not until May and some travel freedoms by June. But time will tell.

      • yorkieflyer says:

        15 Jan15 January 17:59

        It will be before then else Boris will have been roasted by his backbenchers

        • yorkieflyer says:

          15 Jan15 January 18:43

          As a takeaway obviously…..

        • bafan says:

          15 Jan15 January 20:11

          Agreed – no way to the 1922 Committee keep their head down til May / June.

      • Jon says:

        15 Jan15 January 18:03

        How many pubs will still be in business by then? Or family owned restaurants? ‘Cure worse than the disease’. These measures don’t even save lives according to a huge study by one of the worlds leading epidemiologists John Iaodinnis of Stanford University.

        • Brian says:

          15 Jan15 January 18:27

          Apparently, there isn’t a single epidemiologist on SAGE. There are lots of mathematicians, who come up with computer models predicting horror scenarios, the predictions being completely meaningless of course, since they make assumptions that necessarily don’t (always) come to pass. There are professors of psychology from UCL advising SAGE, though….It’s no wonder that the Government has no clue about how to deal with the epidemic, given the so-called experts advising it…

        • Callum says:

          15 Jan15 January 20:55

          Admittedly I only skim read it, but are some of their assumptions not rather dodgy?

          Sweden was classified as a low restriction example, but it was widely reported at the time that people were voluntarily going above and beyond the restrictions. The UK is a severe restriction example, yet there was widespread non-compliance.

          I’d be interested if there’s been a study on verifying both of those points I make as obviously, it’s pretty anecdotal.

        • Nick says:

          16 Jan16 January 10:48

          If pubs and restaurants have survived since last March, they’ll survive another few months until May. And Bozo’s backbenchers were very quiet when the current restrictions were announced, because it was so obviously affecting hospitals. They will be quiet again if it needs extending unless this changes significantly.

        • Rob says:

          16 Jan16 January 11:10

          You forget that businesses have been able to not pay rent since March since evictions were banned. No VAT due either. All these bills are coming due.

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