Hundreds of British tourists flee Swiss quarantine ‘under cover of night’

Hundreds of “furious” tourists from the UK have absconded from obligatory quarantine in the Swiss resort of Verbier. Some have turned up in neighbouring France. “Hoteliers noticed that breakfast trays placed outside room doors had not been touched and then realised that the guests had left,” said Jean-Marc Sandoz, spokesman for the municipality of Bagnes, to which Verbier belongs. He said the resort had identified 420 guests from Britain, including Swiss nationals living there, who had to be quarantined before Christmas. About 50 left immediately and of the remaining 370, fewer than a dozen were still there on Sunday. Many remained in quarantine for a day before fleeing under cover of night, he said. “We understand their anger,” Sandoz said. He sharply criticised the sudden quarantine requirement for arrivals from Britain. Municipalities had received no help to implement the regulations, he said. Simon Wiget, director of Verbier tourism, told Reuters that the sudden quarantine...