Stay updated with breaking news from S martini. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Variant. one of the lessons of the pandemic is that we must move quickly and at the most possible moment. the uk remains in a strong position and we have made. and the initial success of the booster programme but we are heading into winter. we must act with caution. yesterday, i announced that from midday today, we are placing six countries in the africa on the troubled red list. these countries are south africa, botswana, lesotho, s martini, namibia and zimbabwe. anyone who is not an irish resident who has not been in in the countries in the last ten days will be denied entry into england. uk and irish residents arriving from the country from four am on sunday will enter ....
What reaction has there been so far? all countries were cleared from the uk travel medallist three weeks ago but it was kept as a preventative measure and indeed it is being used as a six country travel ban. that has been caused by the finding of 59 confirmed cases of this variant in south africa plus another four cases in botswana and one in hong kong. this is the most heavily mutated variant so far of coronavirus and there are concerns about how fast it can spread and also how fast it can spread and also how effective vaccines are against it. both of those are unknown at the moment so the uk has banned travel from six african countries. that show you which ones they are. south africa, botswana, namibia, lesotho, s martini and ....