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The new variant of the corona virus identified in Britain is also on the radar of the Swiss authorities. The BAG is monitoring the situation, but does not want to jump to conclusions. The Netherlands and Belgium have already issued entry bans, and Germany is considering one.
“We are monitoring the situation,” Katrin Holenstein, communications chief for the Federal Office of Public Health (BAG), said Sunday at the request of the Keystone-SDA news agency. However, at the moment, there is still very little data available to draw reliable conclusions about how contagious the mutation is, how severely infected people could get it, and what effects the modified virus has on the effectiveness of the Sars-CoV-2 vaccine. .
Netherlands imposes entry ban
Other countries have already reacted to the latest events. The Netherlands has issued an entry ban for UK air passengers. Belgium wants to suspend air and rail traffic with Great Britain. Austria is also closing for flights from the island. As “Oe24” reports, British airline passengers can no longer enter Austria. This was learned from “government circles,” the portal writes.
Germany is considering an entry ban for air passengers. According to expert Christian Drosten, the new variant of the coronavirus has not yet appeared in Germany.
Up to 70 percent more contagious
In Britain itself, the newly discovered variant of the corona virus is causing authorities great concern. “It’s out of control and we have to get it back under control,” Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the BBC on Sunday. According to initial findings by British scientists, the recently discovered variant of the virus is up to 70 percent more contagious than the previously known form.
Over the weekend it emerged that a new variant of the virus had also been discovered in South Africa. According to the Health Minister, it could be behind the rapid spread of the second corona wave in the country. (SDA)
