Passenger data show that 22,000 Britons will enter from the 33 “red list” countries from which foreign travel is banned in the three weeks between Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, announcing the policy and the first hotels opening on Feb 15. A further 183,600 passengers will have entered the UK from 27 other countries where Brazilian or south African variant cases have been confirmed, including Spain which has imposed border restrictions with Portugal because of its close links with Brazil. The disclosure will fuel demands for the number of countries subject to hotel quarantine to be widened, with Labour and the devolved administrations demanding that all arrivals should be subject to mandatory self isolation managed by the Government.

“The headlines talk about a crime we still cannot fathom,” his family said in a statement this week. “Fahim is more than what you are reading. He is so much more. You can unsubscribe at any time.Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy noticeFor those who spent hours firing away at invading extraterrestrial nasties in 2012’s superb XCOM: Enemy Unknown like some keyboard wielding Independence Day era Will Smith, I’m afraid it was all for naught. The aliens won.But that’s a good thing it means we’ve got the excellent XCOM 2 to fight through.Picking up where Enemy Unknown left off, you’re now the commander of a freedom fighting cell on a post apocalyptic Earth where the aliens act as an occupying force. Turn by turn, battlefield by battlefield across the globe, you’ll chip away at their defences and lead humanities hopeful comeback.Every element of XCOM 2 feels improved over its predecessor.Still turn based in its isometric combat, maps are procedurally generated, loot drops more varied, skill specialisations more expansive and enemy tactics more unpredictable.Permadeath for your trainable team is still in play (and still particularly soul destroying if you model your most favoured squaddies after real world pals in the character editor), and alien battalions can be truly devious.And smart, too watching a straggler from a decimated enemy group run away to strengthen an unscathed squad of ETs is as marvelous as it is suitably maddening.It all leads to more fluid battles and deeper strategic depth which lends itself well to replay, and the same can be said of your now mobile base of operations, which is less prescriptive in its construction and more varied in its related perks.Read more:Video games releases to look out for this FebruaryThe one area where it still has fault though is with glitches and bugs.