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Just 10 enforcement orders have been issued to people for breaking quarantine rules after arriving in the UK, it has emerged, as fears of an extension of the measures to other parts of Europe led to a surge in last-minute enquires from customers desperate to get away before any further crackdown. This week travellers arriving from Belgium, Andorra and the Bahamas were told they would have to quarantine for 14 days following a rise in Covid-19 cases in those countries. Spain and Luxembourg had already been removed from the travel corridor list. The chancellor, Rishi Sunak, said on Friday the government would not hesitate to reimpose quarantines on arrivals from other countries if necessary, amid concerns that France may be next. Ministers are said to be closely monitoring the situation across the Channel as Covid-19 cases increase. Norway has announced it is reimposing quarantine restrictions on France. Eurostar reported a last-minute surge in bookings from customers desperate to get to Brussels on Friday before Belgium joins the quarantine list at 4am on Saturday. The train service will still be running after that but the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is advising against all but essential travel to Belgium. Getlink, which runs the Channel Tunnel car and truck shuttles, said a rumoured but unconfirmed change in FCO guidance on travelling to France had led to a spike in enquiries from worried customers. Lots of people are calling and asking what to do, said John Keefe, the director of public affairs at Getlink, adding that speculation without facts was unhelpful. All we can do is refer them to the government guidance and what the FCO is saying. At the moment France is not excluded from the travel corridor. Police have complained of being exasperated by the governments haphazard approach to introducing travel restrictions. The quarantine policy is supposedly backed up by law enforcement, but little appears to be taking