Heathrow chaos as hundreds try to cram onto last plane to Dublin

- DAILY MAIL - Dec 20, 2020 -

EMILY WEBBER and RACHAEL BUNYAN and JACK WRIGHT FOR MAILONLINE -

• Hundreds of passengers at London's Heathrow Airport scrambled onto the last flight to Dublin, Ireland

• France, Germany, Israel, El Salvador, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Italy, Finland, Denmark, Turkey, Morocco, Canada, Belgium, Austria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Ireland have banned all flights from Britain

• Boris Johnson will chair a meeting of the Government’s Cobra civil contingencies committee on Monday after a series of countries announced they were stopping flights from the UK, Downing Street has said

• Eurotunnel Le Shuttle has said that the UK-France border will close at 11pm tonight and last train at 9.24pm

• Southern England was plunged into a Tier 4 lockdown in a bid to suppress a 'mutant' strain of coronavirus

• US authorities are looking 'very carefully' into the Covid-19 variant while indicating that a ban on UK travel was not currently on the cards

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