Scuffles broke out at the UK’s Dover Port on Wednesday when police attempted to make space for health workers to arrive as efforts to clear a backlog of stranded drivers continued.
A police escort led in a group of cars carrying National Health Service test and trace workers and people were instructed to return to their vehicles as testing was about to commence.
However, some drivers who were stranded at in Dover protested by blocking vehicles from leaving the port.
A man was removed by police officers when he laid down in front of a truck.
Another protester attempted to stop a bus of port workers from entering.
Gridlock at the English port meant thousands of truckers and travellers remained stranded on Wednesday despite a deal with France to lift a two-day blockade imposed because of a new variant of the coronavirus that had isolated Britain and raised fears of food shortages.
Nations around the world began barring people from Britain over the weekend after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that scientists said a new version of the virus whipping around London and England’s southeast may be more contagious.
