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Authorities say strain spreads up to 70 per cent faster than UK s dominant strain
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A mutant strain of Covid-19 ravaging the United Kingdom has been detected in a couple of returned overseas travelers to Australia, officials have confirmed.
The variant, which British authorities say is 70 per cent more transmissible than the dominant strain, has led several European nations to close off direct flights from the UK.
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COVID-19 chaos: India, several other nations halt UK flights amid fear over new coronavirus strain
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London: India, Hong Kong, Canada, Switzerland and Germany are the latest countries to suspend flights to UK, where a new variant appears to be accelerating the spread of Covid-19.
While some countries have banned all flights carrying passengers from the UK into Europe for at least a 48-hour period, some others have suspended flights into the New Year, even as they assess the situation.
France has closed its border with the UK for 48 hours and no lorries or ferry passengers will be able to sail from the port of Dover. Supermarkets fear items would go missing from its shelves as a result of the French-UK border closure. Since evening shoppers were queuing outside supermarkets in UK amid fears that the ban could disrupt vital festive food supplies. A part of the problem is that French authorities are insisting lorry drivers must register a negative Covid tes
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Flights from Britain are cancelled at Cointrin airport, in Geneva, Switzerland, December 21, 2020. (Reuters Photo: Denis Balibouse)
On Monday India
suspended all flights from and to the UK until December 31, amid concerns about a
new variant of SARS-CoV-2 that is “spreading & growing rapidly” there. Several other countries, too, have suspended UK flights and imposed travel restrictions.