China News Agency, London, December 26 (Zhao Xingyi) British government officials said on the 26th that 4,000 freight trucks stranded at the Dover port in the UK for several days have left the British border and entered France to be relieved.
Data map: On December 22, local time, in Ramsgate, UK, a truck waiting to cross the English Channel stopped on the runway of Manston Airport.
The British Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced to the media that with the help of British military officers and soldiers, thousands of stranded truck drivers have completed the new coronavirus nucleic acid test. As of Friday night, more than 4,500 trucks have left. To the UK.
Significant progress has been made in the “elimination rescue” work, and the “truck detention dilemma” has basically been lifted.
On the 20th, in order to prevent the spread of mutated strains of the new crown virus in the UK, the French government closed the border passage with the UK and implemented a 48-hour total closure of British personnel.
As a result, traffic at the Dover port in the United Kingdom was congested. Freight trucks heading to France through the English Channel Undersea Tunnel were stranded on the roads along the route for several days. The "giant dragon" lined up by more than 4,000 freight trucks fell into a state of inability. The dilemma of "movement" and "lazard eating and drinking is not guaranteed".
On the 23rd, the deadlock in the emergency consultation between the governments of Britain and France was broken.
The French side agreed to relax restrictions on the epidemic and resume border road traffic, but insisted that any truck driver entering France must first obtain a medical certificate that test results are negative within 72 hours.
According to Schaps, in the "relief rescue", the relevant British government agencies deployed and set up rapid detection stations beside the roads blocked by freight trucks, dispatched 1,100 army soldiers to assist on-site, and mobilized all forces to provide logistical service support.
In the past 48 hours, the British South East Railway and the railway network have delivered 7 trains of food to the trapped truck drivers. Local government departments and volunteers have provided a large amount of hot food, snacks and drinks, and added new ones along the roads where trucks are stranded. More than 300 mobile toilets have been installed.
As new freight trucks arrive at the Dover border crossing continuously, Sharps emphasized that “rapid nucleic acid testing cannot be relaxed and needs to be strengthened.” At 2 pm on the 26th, about 1,600 truck drivers were still waiting. Entry into France.
British government officials said that the number of people is under control.
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