The travel ban has already been put up by several nations when they heard about this Variant of the coronavirus found in South Africa, and that had been stated by the World Health Organization as a Variant of concern.
Things are not clear about the coronavirus variant this time, but many are saying that it is highly transmissible. The World Health Organization is doing their best to get as much info as they can and then decide how to make the preparation for the Variant if it proves to be a really major concern.
They did tell the nations that they should not make any decisions on a knee-jerk response, but this has seemed to rattle a lot of nations. The European Union, along with Israel and some other places, have already gone ahead and imposed a travel ban to that area. Flights are getting suspended, and any contact between the nations and Africa are being broken immediately. That is some quick reaction that we have seen.
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said in a statement that flights “should be suspended to the continent of South Africa until we have a clear understanding about what is going on and what are the danger that had been posed by this new variant, and travelers who are returning from this region should be put under quarantine, and they all should respect strict quarantine rules.”
She insisted that the people should also take this seriously and that they should only move forward on extreme caution, she had also given a warning to people saying that “mutations that had already occurred could lead to the emergence and then it will come to the eventual spread of kind of an even more concerning variant of the coronavirus and then that Variant could very well be going on ahead to spread all over the world within a time frame of a few months.
That is all for now. We hope that you are safe for now. We will keep you updated on the news.
