Island Mystery Highlights Uncoordinated U.K. Travel Quarantines
The blacklisting of Serifos deepens confusion for British holidaymakers and shows the complexity of planning breaks during the pandemic.
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Thanasis Kontaris was stunned when the U.K. government blacklisted Serifos, advising against non-essential travel to the small Greek island, and asking residents and visitors returning to England to quarantine for two weeks.
“The total number of confirmed infections here has been in the single digits,” said Serifos’s sole permanent doctor. “I don’t know of any epidemiological data to support such decision.”