Thousands of British tourists beat a hasty retreat from France, packing out planes, trains and ferries to return to the U.K. by the early hours of Saturday morning to avoid a mandatory 14-day quarantine at home.
The increase is raising more questions about reopening schools. ABC's Megan Tevrizian reports.The Associated Press, packing out planes, trains and ferries to return to the U.K. by the early hours of Saturday morning to avoid a mandatory 14-day quarantine at home.
A spokesman for the Le Shuttle car-carrying carrying rail service linking Britain and France under the English Channel said 12,000 people tried to book tickets in the hour after the new rules were announced, compared with just hundreds normally. ″It’s not like during lockdown, where you can go for a run, go to the shops, come back," he said. “None of that, we have to stay in, for two weeks.”
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