Travel to UK from Denmark banned amid worries over Covid in mink

All non-British national or resident travellers who have been in Denmark in past 14 days will be denied entry into UK

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Travel to the UK from Denmark has been banned amid mounting concern over an outbreak in the country of a mutation of coronavirus linked to mink, the British government has announced.

Downing Street had already taken action to remove Denmark from the travel corridor, forcing arrivals to quarantine for two weeks from Friday at 4am.