France Cuts Off Its Nose To Spite Its Face.....

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-59679703
...ok I get it they are still annoyed about Brexit and twitface etc but why would you punish your own ski resorts etc?

[mushroom25]

there's probably a bit of kicking les rosbifs in this, for not letting their fishermen have British fish.......

[Gromit]

The UK put South Africa on the red list when their daily cases were 1,200. This week, SA cases reached 38,000 and were reward with their removal from the red list.

[Spicerack]

Is there anything to stop people claiming negative LFT's as positive?
I'm thinking of people who get paid when self isolating and fancy an extended Christmas break.
Presuming LFT's are included in the Gov. figures.
What about claiming positive tests are negative to get that Gov. Covid free status on their phones.

[Spicerack]

Why shut the stable door now the horse has bolted, gromit?

[Gromit]

Spicerack
The Omicron variant probably got here because there are no restrictions on travellers from abroad. So the next variant has an open invitation to spread here too.

[Gromit]

New Covid variant discovered in France.

// The alarm was sounded by experts at the IHU Mediterranee Infection in Marseille. They announced on their Twitter that they had detected a new variant in Covid-19 patients from Forcalquier, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region. //

The UK Government is currently allowing travellers from this region into the UK. Perhaps we should restrict them.