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The German federal government is preparing to restrict travel opportunities between Germany and the United Kingdom and Germany and South Africa due to a mutation in a new type of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), Berlin announced on Sunday.
The government has started work on the rules and has contacted its European partners, the government’s information office said in a statement.
Earlier, the Dutch, Belgian and Austrian governments announced that they would ban the acceptance of passenger jets departing from the UK. The Netherlands will not accept flights from British territories until at least December 31, Belgium will only introduce a 24-hour ban, starting at midnight Sunday, but it has also stopped rail traffic on British routes. The start date of the Austrian ban is not yet known.
Boris johnson The British prime minister announced on Saturday that a mutation in the SARS-CoV-2 circulating in London and the south-east of England could be up to 70 percent more contagious than before. However, according to experts, no study data suggests changes that would make the new coronavirus mutation more serious than previous versions, and there is no indication that the vaccines developed to date are less effective against the new strain.
A new strain of the virus, which is also spreading in South Africa, was identified as early as September, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday.
(MTI)
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