Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza has signed an order banning direct flights to Italy from Brazil after a new variant of the coronavirus was identified in four passengers arriving from that country. The ban is effective immediately through January 31, according to the order posted on the website of the Ministry of Health on Saturday, Xinhua news agency reported. I signed an order blocking flights departing from Brazil, and forbidding entry into Italy to anyone who has travelled through Brazil over the past 14 days, Speranza wrote in a statement. It is mandatory for anyone already in Italy who came from Brazil to contact health authorities and to get tested (for the virus), the minister said. It is essential for our scientists to be able to conduct an in-depth study of the new variant. Meanwhile, we choose the path of maximum caution.
Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza has signed an order banning direct flights to Italy from Brazil after a new variant of the coronavirus was identified in four passengers arriving from that country.The ban is effective immediately .
The ban is effective immediately through January 31, according to the order posted on the website of the Ministry of Health on Saturday, Xinhua news agency reported.
The ban is effective immediately through January 31, according to the order posted on the website of the Ministry of Health on Saturday, Xinhua news agency reported.
BORDER FORCE
More than 50 countries now banning flights from UK as mutant Covid strain continues to cause travel chaos
Updated: 23 Dec 2020, 0:29
MORE than 50 countries have now banned flights coming from the UK as the new mutant strain of coronavirus rips through Britain.
The Caribbean destinations of Jamaica, Grenada and the Dominican Republic are among the latest to shut their doors to travellers from the UK.
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A traveller arrives at the Airport of Bilbao after the last flight from London landed in Loiu, northern SpainCredit: EPA
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Boris Johnson cancelled a planned relaxation of lockdown measures over Christmas amid concern over the new strainCredit: Reuters