Health secretary Sajid Javid says UK Covid-19 infection levels could double – raising concerns that other countries could impose travel restrictions, writes Simon Calder
Yes. Only 10 days earlier, the director of the Moroccan National Tourist Office in the UK was saying: “We are looking forward to welcoming”, while just this week easyJet launched flights from Luton to Marrakesh. But the government in Rabat was evidently alarmed by the soaring coronavirus infection rates in the UK – the highest for months, and around 60 times higher than Morocco’s numbers – and decided it would be in the nation’s best interests to ban flights.
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