Covid variant: Italy suspends flights with Great Britain

12/21/2020 Health, Italy



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“The UK Shot the alarm about a new form of Covid which would be the result of a virus mutation. As a government we have a duty to protect Italians, for this reason, after having notified the British government, with the Ministry of Health we are about to sign the provision to suspend flights with Great Britain. Our priority is to protect Italy and our compatriots. Chancellor Luigi Di Maio announces it on Facebook.

The government’s decision comes after the alarming news from London. The new coronavirus variant identified in the UK is indeed “out of control”British Health Minister Matt Hancock said. “We have to get it under control,” he told Sky News. Meanwhile WHO announces that the new variant has also been identified in Denmark and Australiaas well as in the Netherlands. The UN agency calls for more controls in Europe.

The order to block flights from Great Britain, signed by the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, enters into force from the date of adoption, that is, today, until January 6, 2021.

People who are now in Italy and who were in the room the fourteen days before today or who have passed through the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, although asymptomatic, are obliged to report immediately.entered the national territory to the Prevention Department of the local health authority and submit molecular smear test or antigenic.