The United Kingdom is now cut off from much of the world due to our highly infectious new coronavirus strain, snarling one of Europe's most important trade routes just days before the Brexit cliff edge.

Britain's interior minister Pretty Patel, test in of some sort is under is part of the discussions that the transport secretary is having with his counterpart in France.

Right now, getting those tests up and runnin can happen relatively quickly.

But in terms of the details off that that is something that both the transport secretary in his counterpart will be discussing right now.

So I don't want to speculate in terms of, you know, the nature of the tested and how soon that could be up and running.

Local media are reporting that Britain and France will announce a deal to restart freight by Wednesday.

Supermarkets have warned.

If it's not lifted soon, there will be shortages of fresh food after Christmas, It's thought the mutated variant of the novel coronavirus could be up to 70% more transmissible, which is spooked much of the world that it's heading for them.