Though the new strain of the COVID-19 virus that first surfaced in the UK has …

The UK has detected two cases of another new variant of coronavirus, the health secretary Matt Hancock says. The cases in London and north west England are contacts of people who travelled to South Africa, where the variant was discovered. File Travel restrictions with South Africa have been imposed. Anyone who has travelled there in the past fortnight, and anyone they …

For the past few days, thousands of trucks and their drivers have been stuck on the roads, on both sides of the UK’s border, due to the sudden travel restrictions imposed there because of the spread of the new strain of COVID-19. The truck drivers, who are from across Europe, were eying to reach their homes before Christmas, but that …