South Africa says UK red list travel decision on new Covid variant is premature - The Mail & Guardian

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South Africa says UK red list travel decision on new Covid variant is premature: The department of international relations and cooperation says the travel ban on Southern African countries seems to be rushed

Less than two months after being removed from the United Kingdom’s red list, South Africa has again been red listed.by South African scientists on Thursday of the detection of a new Covid-19 variant.by the World Health Organisation , variant B.1.1.529 has been found to have multiple mutations in the spike protein as well as across the virus genome, with some of these mutations having been identified in previous variants that have been highly transmissible such as the Alpha and Delta variants.

In addition to South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, Namibia and Zimbabwe have been included in the list of countries that the UK has temporarily banned flights from.from these countries will be expected, from Sunday morning, to book and pay for a government-approved hotel quarantine facility for 10 days on arrival in the UK. Direct flights from these countries will remain banned from Friday 25 November until the quarantine facility has been set up, which is expected to be on 28 November.

“South Africa will engage the UK government with the view to persuade them to reconsider this decision,” Monyela said. “This is going to be bad for us because we have worked hard and we are concerned that other countries might follow what the UK has done and impose a travel ban on South Africa.

 

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Well yesterday they rushed a media convference and thought they are hero’s. Thats what you get when you in-still uncertainty and fear.

Duh.

Please take note sajidjavid! You are causing utter chaos in the lives of thousands of people!!

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