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More than 400 British tourists fled a Swiss ski resort to avoid a quarantine order that forced them to stay inside for 10 days before reaching the slopes, according to the Daily Telegraph.
Skiers were ordered to isolate themselves in their rooms in Verbier, in the canton of Valais, under federal orders after the United Kingdom announced it was facing a more contagious coronavirus mutation that has spread around the world. .
But on Sunday, hoteliers told officials that many guests did not answer their room phone or have breakfast on the trays outside the door.
Authorities found that less than a dozen of the 420 British skiers ordered to quarantine remained in their rooms at the expensive resort.
Switzerland banned flights from the UK on 20 December and instituted a 10-day retroactive quarantine for those who had been in the country since 14 December. On Christmas Eve, officials said the British could return home if they took special measures to inform local authorities of their mode of transport.
Local officials have been accused of not doing enough to enforce quarantine, a dispute between regional leaders, the Telegraph reports.
“Some guests went out by car and are now in quarantine in the UK,” Christophe Darbellay, the president of the Valais government, told the newspaper. “There is a sense of personal responsibility. You can travel all over Europe without having to identify yourself. The border is a sieve. “
Darbellay blamed the Federal Office of Public Health, saying passenger information was delivered too late, making its application “unnecessarily difficult.”
Tourism workers say enforcing the regulations was confusing, in part because of inconsistent state information.
“It was a trickle, a trickle of information that we had and we informed tourists about the rules as best we could,” Simon Wiget, the director of the Verbier Tourist Office, told the Telegraph.
“We identified about 350 people, but maybe there were 500 people if all the owners of the second house and the private villas were included, it was impossible to be sure. Maybe some people might have thought they were escaping, but I think the big one most would have believed that they acted within the law and responsibly.
“People are basically honest and don’t break the law on purpose. Everything is very confusing, even for us, ”Wiget said.
Anyone caught breaking the quarantine is subject to a $ 11,000 fine.
The OPF backed down, saying it was providing local officials with information on passengers on all flights in the UK, according to the Telegraph.