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AGI – The ‘English variant’ of Covid scares Europe. A few hours ago, the Chancellor, Luigi Di Maio, announced on Facebook I stopped it ai voli. “The UK – wrote the minister – has raised the alarm about a new form of Covid that would be the result of a mutation of the virus. As a government we have a duty to protect Italians, for this reason, after having warned the government English, with the Ministry of Health we are about to sign the measure to suspend flights with Great Britain. Our priority is to protect Italy and our compatriots. “Then, in Che Tempo che Fa, he said:” We will ask for the coordination of the European Union “to face the new variant.
After Italy too Germany will stop air connections with the United Kingdom from midnight, following the news of the “uncontrolled” spread of the new Covid mutation. “This decision, which could be adopted by the entire European Union, will be formalized in the next few hours,” explained a German government source, specifying that European countries are simultaneously discussing a common response in maritime, rail and road connections with the Great. Brittany. According to the German daily Bild, Berlin will also ban flights to and from South Africa “due to the more aggressive mutations of the coronavirus found in both countries.”
As Bild has learned, “it is also certain that the EU will do the same and decide on even broader measures: at the beginning of the week it will stop all passenger traffic to and from the UK, including by sea and rail, which it means that the ports and Eurotunnels are closed to the British. “
Meanwhile tomorrow at 11 there will be an extraordinary summit of the EU countries. “The German presidency of the European Union invited the representatives of the member countries to an emergency meeting of the crisis response mechanism (IPCR) tomorrow at 11. On the agenda: coordination of the response to the new variant of the coronavirus in the UK, “German Presidential spokesman Sebastian Fischer tweeted.
After Germany also came the austria stop. “We must avoid the introduction of this dangerous mutation of the virus at all costs,” warned the chancellor, Alexander Schallenberg, quoted by the APA agency. And the blockade of Paris: France has suspended all arrivals from Great Britain for 48 hours starting at midnight. The measure refers to flights, maritime connections and the Eurotunnel. During these 48 hours, health authorities must agree on a new testing regime in collaboration with EU partners.
First, it was the Netherlands and then Belgium that cut off contacts with Great Britain.
Meanwhile, British Health Minister Matt Hancock admitted thatThe spread of the mutation in the UK is out of control.or. Precisely for this reason, Hancock has launched an appeal to respect the new restrictions on the part of the population, brandishing as irresponsible the thousands of Londoners who sarbao lined up in the street and on the train in a maxi exodus from the confinement regime introduced to contain the advance of the pandemic. “The best gift you can give this Christmas is to stay home and not spread the virus,” he said. According to The Independent, today’s registrations of new Covid-19 cases in Britain are also the result of accelerating infections caused by the new version of the virus, which would have done so. increase infections by 50% in a week.
At the moment The United States does not need to suspend flights from Great Britain. Assistant U.S. Health Secretary Brett Giroir said in an interview with ABC. “I really don’t think there is an immediate need,” said Giroir, according to whom “there is still no cause for alarm” over the new strain of coronavirus discovered in Britain.
