Holidaymakers in Morocco have been left frantically trying to find flights home after the country announced it was closing its borders to Britain.
Moroccan officials made the announcement on Thursday due to soaring infection rate, reports the Mirror.
Cases have risen above 40,000 for nine days in a row now, according to government data.
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Chloe Boulos, 30, from Essex, said she and her partner were due to fly home Thursday, but they were told by their airline the flight had been cancelled only a few hours before it was scheduled to depart.
She said they were awaiting an update and hoped to fly on Friday and that "It has definitely ruined the last day as we've just spent all day checking for an update.
"It is more frustrating than anything as all day we have been in limbo not knowing if we would be leaving or not."
Another man travelling from the UK said the ban on flights came as "a bit of a shock"
Will Malpass, 31, who lives in Clapham, south London, said that he and his partner have been left in a "frustrating" situation after arriving in Morocco on Sunday.
He said that they will now have to travel through France to get home.
"As it stands, we're going through France and then (getting the) Eurostar back," he said.
Mr Malpass said he is not scheduled to fly home until Monday but was notified that his flight had been cancelled when the ban was announced.
He said: "It did come as a surprise - it doesn't feel like (the ban) actually solves anything because we're just finding a way through another country to get back."
Morocco's National Office of Airports said the policy will remain in place "until further notice".
Latest figures from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control show that Morocco's weekly rate of reported coronavirus cases on October 14 stood at 10.4 per 100,000 people. The rate in the UK is 445.5 per 100,000 people.
The country also banned flights to and from Germany and the Netherlands.
Health leaders in the UK have warned Covid restrictions must immediately be reintroduced.
Downing Street said that they would continue to monitor the data but added that vaccinations had broken the link between cases, hospital admissions and deaths.
A No 10 spokesman said: "Our focus remains on ensuring we get boosters out to those who are eligible."
But Matthew Taylor, head of the NHS Confederation urged the government to roll out Plan B to avoid hospitals becoming overwhelmed.
He said: "The health service is right at the edge."
