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There is no new additions, angola, mozambique, malawi and zambia. we also have south africa, zimbabwe and others who are already on the list. anyone who is not a uk or irish citizen will not be able to come into the uk if they have been in any of those countries in the course of the last ten days. pcr testing is also coming back. that only went at the end of october. it was the 24th of october for england, the 31st for scotland, wales and northern ireland. so a relatively recent change with the ...

Travel, as has been announced by mr johnson. the welsh government did say it had warned the uk government of the dangers of removing restrictions. we have repeatedly raised our concerns about its decision to relax international travel reels quickly, precisely because of the risk of introducing new variants into the uk. we also warned against the removal of pcr tests for returning travellers. that is what the welsh government have been saying. lets get some reaction to the announcement. lets spea...

African scientists for doing their due diligence to pick up this variant, they picked it up at the same time i am sitting on the advisable committee. when i became aware of it last week, i alerted them, and that was more or less the same time as they also started to see changes in the pcr testing from the virus strains they are testing. so it might be contagious, but so far, very mild cases. as i said, the whole picture might change going forward. ~ , , ~ forward. absolutely, angelique. it is ve...

Situation, when changes happen they come quite quickly. looking further ahead, if there are passengers or people who have got travel plans in the next few weeks or months, what should they do? because they are probably looking at this thinking, should i cancel? what is the situation for them. i should i cancel? what is the situation for them.— should i cancel? what is the situation for them. i think the thin is situation for them. i think the thing is to _ situation for them. i think the thing...

Agency will be closely monitoring this. we have pcr testing which can actually spot this new mutation, it is picked up in pcr testing. that is not 100% accurate but it is an early heads up that this could be this new variant and that can be taken away for sequencing to get confirmation. clearly that is what has happened and they have identified these two cases. then it is about targeted search testing and tracing, making sure you get in contact with the close contacts, get them to isolate. they ...

That might go straight to hospital and be admitted. but we are also aware that the numbers are very, very slightly going up in the icus, that it is nothing compared to what we have seen with delta. we understand that this is early days, and that is why we say it is not a storm in a teacup now. but it might change. two weeks from now, we might say something different. but im afraid that, looking at the symptoms, i think it has been missed by other countries as well, and i want to applaud south af...

Movement. its to see if hewe can slow th spread. knowing theres probably already transmission with this variant is something we should prepare for and make sure we have a good response. i agree its one of those double-edged swaords. youre punishing people that are doing evidence and data sharing. theres some good news here. the good news, as we talk about this variant, we can detect it through pcr testing. were able to find out about the variant earlier on, compared to delta where it was already...

The Health Service Executive (HSE) has responded to the reported lack of PCR appointments in 18 counties, including Kildare, which occurred earlier this we...

Just a matter of days until we get that information. >> so there are less than 100 cases confirmed worldwide. theyre spread across the world in countries like south africa, botswana, hong kong, belgium, israel. at this point were tracking cases -- not a high number of cases but theres some decent spread. theyre in almost every continent already. is it until a matter of time until we have a case in the u.s.? >> its quite possible its already here and we havent picked it up with the pcr testing. a...

Mutations, 30 of them being in a key protein that we study and use to vaccinate against, which is the spike protein which sits on the virus surface. this spike protein engages our receptors and gains entry into our cells. it is also the target of the response following vaccination against natural infection so it really is a critical part of the virus and we are seeing a large number of changes occurring in this new variant. and of course now the race is on to try and find outjust how contagious ...