All viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, mutate, and variants have been first located in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.
Mr Hancock said: "At the moment it is all linked to travel." He added: "That's why we have got such stringent border measures in place against movement from South Africa."on 14 January showed there were 35 confirmed cases of the South Africa variant identified in the UK, and a further 12 "probable" cases.
Shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had been "pushing the government to take tougher measures at the border since last spring".
Which means there are at least 770 somewhere.
livelifeking1 Ban the flights BorisJohnson MattHancock . We’ve already learned restriction or essential travel won’t stop people from coming in or going, hence full airports! bantheflights
Please stop publishing news that would just make people more worried and concerned, it would not help
Bantheflights! BorisJohnson
Ban the flights BorisJohnson michaelgove
Please take stricter measures in borders. Quarantine travellers 14days at hotels,because the new variant might be a threat to vaccines.
That’s of the found cases. What’s the error rate + 50 ? Something we can only guess. Best to err on the side of caution. But Britain doesn’t do that because it’s stupid.
High population density, high BAME prevalence - factors that can’t be discussed and are deliberately hidden by the undemocratic state controlled media at our expense
No probs
South Africa's cases are going down, just like ours, as are the deaths (which are relatively not that many).
If you are looking for a reason to have closed the borders...
If u leave the travel industry open and allow people 2 fly back and 2 then here is the consequence! What do we and the rest of the world know compared 2 MattHancock BorisJohnson etc
Doesn't exist.
So if they detect 77 that mean at least few hundreds that they didnt detect.This government is so useless, if they had closed the boarder these virus wouldnt have got here. Even if they got here if they have a strict quarantine then it wouldnt be in spreading into the community.
Stop the flights then seriously just close the airport's to everyone traveling it's not working we will never get out of lockdown at this rate!! Sort it out BorisJohnson MattHancock
Can the UK's handling of this get any worse. We know fine well 77 known cases means there are certain to be some unknown. Enhanced track and trace I have no faith in considering as the normal version never worked. Means a new potentially vaccine resistant variant is now here 🤦♂️
Death!
This government continuing to bow to pressures from the airline industry and keeping our borders open will risk undoing all the vaccine work that’s been done if this SA variant is indeed more resistant.
Are these 77 cases and their contacts in a secure location, or is the government once again relegated to the position of impotent observer to this multiple car crash of a pandemic? If this were New Zealand, everyone would be isolated.
I'm presuming it has 'made in S Africa' stamped on it somewhere.
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By 'South African Variant' you of course mean B1.351 or 501Y.V2. You wouldn't want to be a 'racist'.
And its resistant to the vaccine On top of our own variant Now if we had had proper quarantine Breakouts at DVLA as staff forced to work 107000 dead Rampant corruption Enough is enough USELESS No Govt could do worse than these idiots
Why is the Uk allowing anyone in. Stop all flights. All the countries that shut their boarders are in a better place then the UK, we are pathetic.
Has to be 77.
MattHancock BorisJohnson Govt had better get their arse in gear & get the 2nd vaccine issued quicker than 12 weeks! If they don't, they'll have yet more deaths on their hands! PM's playing a very dangerous game which could backfire with 1000's of avoidable deaths!
India is willing to donate vaccines to Britain free-of-charge and the cherry on top, India is also prepared to supply Ivermectin which is the only product that has proven efficacy against covid infections. Eat humble pie and save lives ! Ask India 🇮🇳
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