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Old May 11, 2021, 10:08 am
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Originally Posted by steview111
To stop 10,000+ football fans (with or without tickets) going to a place with a fairly high rate of infection. Pretty obvious really.

Why else would they add Turkey to the red list when it’s cases were falling and around 20,000 per day, and not when they were 60,000+?
I'm not sure you can have it both ways.

Turkey offer the same types of risks of as the other middle-east nations hosting major transfer hubs: not so much quarantine evasion, but lack of confidence in the testing credentials of some transfer passengers.
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