UAE flight ban leaves thousands of Britons stranded

LONDON: Thousands of people have been left stranded or had their travel plans disrupted after the British government introduced a total ban on flights arriving from the UAE.

UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps added the UAE to its “red list” of 30 countries with a total ban on arrivals at 1pm on Friday.

The Department for Transport said that the aim was “to prevent the spread of the new variant originally identified in South Africa into the UK.”