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Cut off: Britain hit with travel bans over new virus strain

by Pan Pylas
| December 23, 2020 12:06 AM

LONDON (AP) — Trucks waiting to get out of Britain backed up for miles and people were left stranded at airports Monday as dozens of countries around the world slapped tough travel restrictions on the U.K. because of a new and seemingly more contagious strain of the coronavirus in England.

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