COVID plus Brexit means quarantine, paperwork and stress
By DW
20 January 2021 |
2:15 pm
Travel in a pandemic may not be a wise move. Traveling in deepest winter as COVID numbers surge, just days after your right of free movement has been removed — that is monumentally unwise, writes DW's Elliot Douglas.
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