The country will ban entry to anyone who has been in Britain in the past two weeks, Health Minister Roberto Speranza said on Facebook Sunday. "The decision was made to protect the public against the spread of Covid-19," Latvian Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš said on Twitter. Still, Londoners piled on to trains and motorways on Saturday night as they rushed to leave the capital ahead of new restrictions announced by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The alarms bells have been ringing for weeks, but the Prime Minister chose to ignore them," he said. "It is an act of gross negligence by a Prime Minister who, once again, has been caught behind the curve," he said.

Source: CNN December 20, 2020 12:45 UTC