Nearly 400 Brits Escape Coronavirus quarantine in Switzerland

[MrCurry]

A story I haven’t yet seen in the UK news. This I picked up from the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet (in Swedish)

Google translate below

Nearly 400 British guests have escaped from a Swiss ski hotel in Verbier, where they were forced to sit in quarantine, reports the Norwegian news agency NTB.
Local authorities still have compassion for the fugitives, who were quarantined at very short notice on 21 December following the discovery of the mutated virus variant in the UK.
- We understand their state of mind, said Jean-Marc Sandoz, spokesperson for Bane municipality where Verbier is located, to the news agency DPA.
Swiss authorities had identified 420 Britons who were quarantined at the hotel. About 50 left immediately and on Sunday there were only about ten left.
Sandoz stated that some of the British have since appeared in France.

 

[platinumsage]

That doesn't sound like they were "quarantined" i.e. imposed isolation.

A polite request asking someone if they would be so awfully kind as to stay indoors is not that.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Ski twats in 'twats' shocker.

 

[nogojones]

It's like Colditz all over again

 

[MrCurry]

Ski twats in 'twats' shocker.

Exactly. The type of Brits who spend Christmas in Verbier may not be the community-minded fellows who might be expected to put the public good above their own leisure interests.

 

[elbows]

Switzerland annoyed many EU countries by refusing to shut their ski resorts over this period. I dont have much sympathy with the authorities there.

 

[xenon]

Ski twats in 'twats' shocker.

Skiing types but the skiing types, who go on a ski holiday in the middle of a pandemic too.

 

[editor]

A story I haven’t yet seen in the UK news. This I picked up from the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet (in Swedish)

Google translate below

 

[tony.c]

First variant covid case confirmed in Switzerland.