Coronavirus: Would I have to isolate after a stop in a high-risk nation?

Simon Calder answers your questions on the latest travel restrictions and whether it’s still worth booking trips in advance

Belgium is yet to be put on the quarantine list, so changing trains in its capital is currently OK (PA)

Q If the government were to put Belgium on the quarantine list, would you need to self-isolate if you stop in Brussels for an hour to change trains on Eurostar?

Louise

A Yes – though I stress this answer is hypothetical. There has certainly been chatter on social media, and occasionally mentioned by government ministers, about the worrying level of coronavirus cases in Belgium. As of yesterday, the country had almost three times as many cases per 100,000 as the UK. But on Thursday night it was Luxembourg – not Belgium – that suffered the ignominy of moving from the low-risk to the high-risk lists compiled by the UK government.