More than 10,000 recieve Covid-19 tests as efforts to clear Dover lorry backlog continue

More than 10,000 Covid-19 tests have been carried out Picture: Gareth Fuller/PA

More than 10,000 coronavirus tests have been carried out in a bid to clear the backlog of lorries waiting to cross the English Channel into France on Christmas Day.

Some 1,100 military personnel have been deployed in Kent as part of the repatriation operation, after French Covid-19 restrictions caused severe disruptions at the Port of Dover.