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Hotsaint
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November 26th, 2021, 3:55 pm

After South Africa discovered a new Covid-19 type with a huge number of mutations, Britain announced on Thursday that it will ban travel from six southern African countries

“The early indications we have of this variety are that it may be more transmissible than the Delta version, and that the vaccines we have now may be less effective against it,” Health Secretary Sajid Javid said.
The new variety, which South Africa blamed for a spike in cases and which had previously been detected in tourists from the nation in Botswana and Hong Kong, had not yet been discovered in the United Kingdom, according to Javid.
He did say, though, that British experts were “very concerned,” and that as a precaution, all flights from South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Zimbabwe, and Botswana will be suspended from 1200 GMT on Friday.
“Anyone arriving from certain countries from 4:00 a.m. on Sunday will be required to provide identification.”
We would also advise everybody who has arrived from any of those countries in the last 10 days to have PCR tests.”
Covid-19 has claimed the lives of 144,000 people in the United Kingdom since the outbreak began early last year.
Positive cases remain persistently high — more than 47,000 were recorded in a 24-hour period ending Thursday — but more than 80% of persons aged 12 and up have been double-vaccinated.
Nearly 29% had received a third booster dose as part of a government effort to relieve strain on already overburdened health systems during the winter months, when other seasonal respiratory diseases are common.
The British government was harshly chastised earlier in the pandemic for its travel and quarantine policies, in which it kept its borders open to foreign visitors even as infection rates soared.

Source : www.travelvilla.com.ng
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December 4th, 2021, 8:51 am

Nice update
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