Well, it's pretty well hyped via N-TV this afternoon. Chancellor Merkel has some plan in the works for the EU (getting to react is a bit drawn out), but Germany will halt UK planes landing and the travel business is going to be locked down.
Timing of this new ban? Midnight tonight (Sunday).
This would run to the 6th of January, but could be extended.
How many Germans would be left 'stranded' in the UK? Unknown. Nor is that any real government chatter on how they'd 'save' this group in the next day or two....getting back to Germany.
Traveling by ferry or the Chunnel? Well....no one is much of anything, which is the comical side of this story. They seem to be pre-occupied with just airplane travel.
Other European countries doing the same? Some are, with varying rules. This is why it'd be a lot smarter to have just one simple policy via the EU.
All due to the new variant of the virus? Well....it seems that way.
The worst part of this situation? You could have 40k Germans sitting in London....who'd normally be on a plane....the 22th or 23th.....getting back to Germany. They are going to be asking serious questions about their journey, and the only thing that Berlin can say....'tough luck'.
Update: name for this new deal? B.1.1.7.
According to the government....only cargo planes, or empty Lufthansa planes will be allowed to leave the UK and land in Germany in this period.
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