Hundreds of UK tourists flee Covid quarantine in Swiss ski resort
by Philip Oltermann in Berlin from on (#5C4DW)
About half of the 420 visitors ordered to self-isolate left Verbier in cloak-and-dagger' operation this week
Hundreds of British tourists fled the upmarket Swiss ski resort of Verbier in a cloak-and-dagger operation" this week, breaking quarantine rules retroactively put in place to contain the spread of the coronavirus variant first discovered in the UK.
Following the detection of the new mutation of Covid-19 in Britain, Swiss authorities announced on 21 December that all people who had arrived from the UK since 14 December would need to self-isolate for 10 days from their date of arrival.
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