Flights From Britain Banned Until Midnight Tomorrow
Only ferry crossings for freight will be allowed after a new strain of Covid-19 in England has shown to spread up to 70% faster.
The EU member states will meet today to discuss its response to the variant.
Minister Eamon Ryan says the Government can't rule out the possibility of that new mutated strain being here:
"We don't have any evidence to that, the ECDC have have issued a note though, saying that there, may well be prevalence in other countries. So we can't rule that out, and it just urges us to be more cautious in particular I suppose because in the last two or three days we have seen a significant rise in the numbers, and that's something that raises concern."
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They're appealing to retailers to come to the talks table
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