The government has created a mutation monster as the frontiers now shutting because of the scare - Dutch, Belgian and German travel bans so far…

Marc Van Ranst, the Belgian virologist - and no stranger to sounding the alarm himself - has had 4 cases in his lab and sees the mutation as a “minor variant” only
“The new variant in England does not cause any additional concern,”

Belgium will close airports and Eurostar terminal from midnight for 24 hours as precautionary measure. “We don't have a conclusive answer yet,” said the PM De Croo

Dutch have stopped flights from 6am - again precautionary and CV-19 viand is already present in Netherlands
“Apparently something has happened now that has made them decide to take additional measures,” said RIVM

“The moment they say something is going on here, you take this measure to be on the safe side because you want to prevent it from coming here,”

Bild reporting that Jens Spahn, the health minister, will go to the federal cabinet tomorrow with a flight ban regulation

What started off as a panicky government (perhaps) looking for alibis after cancelling Christmas seems to be spreading…