Eurostar passenger trains from London to Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam were also halted.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a statement that for 72 hours starting at midnight Sunday, “all flights from the UK will be prohibited from entering Canada”. The British government said Mr Johnson would preside at a meeting of the government's crisis committee, COBRA, today in the wake of the other nations' measures.
But he stressed “there’s no evidence to suggest it is more lethal or causes more severe illness,” or that vaccines will be less effective against it. The World Health Organisation tweeted late Saturday that it was "in close contact with UK officials on the new #COVID19 virus variant" and promised to update governments and the public as more is learned.
Studies are under way to better understand how fast it spreads and whether “it’s related to the variant itself, or a combination of factors with behavior,” she added.
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