A more rapidly spreading strain of coronavirus has appeared in Britain

The Dutch government has suspended all flights from the UK since Sunday after someone in the Netherlands was found infected with a new strain of the coronavirus spreading in the island nation. The affected flights will be suspended starting at 6 am Sunday, and the measure will be in effect until January 1, writes MTI.

The Dutch move was announced a few hours after the British government confirmed that a new strain of coronavirus was spreading much faster than before in London and south-east England.

The Dutch Public Health Authority (RIVM) “recommends that access to this version of the virus (…) be avoided as much as possible by restricting or controlling the movement of passengers from the UK,” the Department of Health said in a statement.

Mark Rutte Therefore, the prime minister’s cabinet has made a precautionary decision to ban flights from the UK, the Dutch government said in the coming days, along with other European Union member states.

The Netherlands ordered a five-week shutdown until mid-January to curb the outbreak again, closing schools and non-essential goods stores.

Boris johnson The British prime minister announced on Saturday that the virus circulating in London and the south-east of England could be up to 70 percent more contagious than the pathogen so far. However, according to experts, no data from the study suggests changes that would make the new coronavirus mutation, identified in England earlier this week but already detected in other countries, more serious than previous versions, and there is no indication of that vaccines have been developed so far. they would be less effective against the new strain.