Everything we know about the new coronavirus variant in Brazil
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Everything we know about the new coronavirus variant in Brazil
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Boris Johnson is very concerned about this new variant, adding that extra measures are being put in place to prevent the variant being imported to the UK. Travel to the UK from all of South America as well as Portugal, Panama and Cape Verde was banned from 4am on Friday 15 Jan.
The news comes as the new UK coronavirus variant, B1.1.7. continues to rapidly spread across the country. Safeguarding minister Victoria Atkins said that the Government was keeping COVID-19 restrictions under constant review.
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