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The Brazilian Covid variant has been found in 15 countries that are not banned for international travel by the UK s red list.
UK residents must quarantine in a hotel for at least ten days after returning from 33 countries where variants of concern are known to exist.
But the Brazilian variant known as P.1 has also been found in the US, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Japan, Mexico, India, Italy and South Korea, none of which are on Britain s red list .
A list compiled by the World Health Organization also included further reports of the variant being found in China, Croatia, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey.
The Health Secretary said officials are close to finding the person who provided the positive swab but no contact details, working out that it came from a batch of home tests used in the South East.
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Six cases of Brazilian mutant strain of coronavirus have been detected in England and Scotland, officials said
Three people flying into Aberdeen from Brazil via Paris and London tested positive for the contagious variant
Two cases detected in England came from a household in South Gloucestershire, Public Health England said
But health officials admitted that the sixth case has not been located and could be anywhere in the nation
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