Canada, Chile and two more American countries ban travel from UK

Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Canada have also joined the growing list of nations to banning travel from the United Kingdom as part of a bid to keep their inhabitants secure from the type of new coronavirus variant spreading in the United Kingdom and southeastern England.

These travel bans came hours after the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that Christmas shopping and celebrations in London and many areas around had to be cancelled due to the rapidly spreading infections on the new coronavirus variant

Johnson also placed some regions under strict new Tier 4 limitations, upending Christmas programs for millions of people, and pushing France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Ireland and Bulgaria to enforce curbs on UK travel.

Argentina's interior ministry stated in its statement that the final flight from Britain was scheduled to arrive in Buenos Aires on Monday morning before the stoppage started and now passengers and crew arriving in this flight will have to go into a seven-day quarantine.

The Chilean government said that non-resident foreigners living in Britain in the last 14 days would be banned from entering the country. The Chilean statement said the measure would come into force on Tuesday midnight and would last two weeks.

Colombian President Evan Duke also suspended all flights to the UK, saying that whoever arrived in the country from Monday, "who has been in the United Kingdom, will enter our country for 14 days in isolation".

Canada announced its ban on Sunday night. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a statement that for 72 hours starting on Sunday midnight, "all flights from the UK will be banned from entering Canada".

He said that passengers arriving on Sunday would be subjected to secondary screening and other health measures. A follow-up statement from the government stated that cargo flights were not included in the ban.