european union, japan and several other countries announcing flight bans to countries in southern africa. our medical editor fergus walsh reports. after months of opening up, a new coronavirus variant means travel restrictions are back. at heathrow, the last flights from south africa arrived this morning. i feel extremely relieved, because, yeah, who knows how long this is going to last? we ve been told we have to isolate at home, so that shouldn t be too bad. from sunday, only uk and irish residents will be allowed in from six southern african countries, and they ll have to pay to quarantine in a hotel. the travel restrictions mean catherine will miss her niece s wedding in south africa. it s devastating. they ve held back this wedding for two years for us, so we were all going to be together, which is really important.
not to give up, although people are not giving up, for sure, but it s one more signal that we have strong allies beside us. but despite sanctions on his regime and international flight bans, president lukashenko has dug in with russian support. we talked about multiple points of pressure on the regime for the regime to stop violence, release political prisoners and start dialogue with belarus, and you know, i m sure that belarus can be an example of non violent transition of power. she told the president the us could be an invaluable future partner to an independent belarus, but for that to become a reality, the situation on the ground would have to look vastly different to this, with no immediate sign it will. mark lobel, bbc news.
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The discovery of a mutated variant of COVID-19, and ensuing flight bans in many countries, have caused Indians to scrap travel plans for the next three months 01 Min Read
A number of Indians might cancel their international travel plans as a result of the discovery of a new variant of COVID-19 in a few countries, and consequent flight bans in places like Dubai, France, and Singapore, according to a survey.
there s a ban in the u.k. until 1:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, tuesday morning. until then, not a lot going to be happening. there have been various emergency meetings across europe to decide what to do. the most significant one will be the european ministers. they will meet and talk about what exactly to do and how long flight bans should actually be in place. back to you. thanks, sasha. here s a look at where we stand right now with all of the delays and cancellations, 63,000 flights have been grounded over european air space since thursday afternoon. 5,000 flights took off yesterday. 19,000 fewer than normal. british airways announced none of its flights will be taking off and the massive cloud of ash causing all of this now stretches across england, austria, france and germany and parts of russia. unbelievable. with the iceland volcano still spewing ash.
that s a huge amount of money. it s believed to be affecting 6.8 million passengers and that could increase as the week goes on depending whether or not the flight bans are actually lifted. some test flights have taken place. particularly one from heathrow airport behind me. that took place yesterday. it was up in the air around two and a half hours. it land the in wales and they found the volcanic ash didn t seem to have adverse effect on the aircraft. that was mirrored by other agencies who sent their aircraft into the air and found the ash didn t have any adverse effect. no one is taking any chances and most flights are grounded. it s thought 30% of flights will be taking place in the affected area of europe throughout the day. obviously, that s a huge decrease in the total number of flights actually expected.