Covid: UK's ban on South America travellers comes into force

[Judi Lynn]

Source: BBC News


Published 1 hour ago

Travellers from South America are no longer allowed to come into the UK, amid fears over a new coronavirus variant first identified in Brazil.

The UK's new travel ban - which also applies to Portugal and Cape Verde - came into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday.

Like the variants that were first spotted in the UK and South Africa, it is thought the Brazil variant could be more contagious.

It comes as a further 1,248 people with coronavirus have died in the UK.

Latest government figures on Thursday also showed another 48,682 new cases had been reported.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55671656

[Ford_Prefect]

1. The Brexit crew are very concerned that this new variant may alter skin tones and speech patterns.

[sandensea]

2. Quite.

Besides which, most Latin American nations have already suspended any travel to or from the U.K. over their recent Covid variant, which as you know is 70% more transmissible.

This sounds like retaliation from Boris, in hopes of whipping up his most jingoistic base.