{"id":9245,"date":"2021-11-27T20:50:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T15:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/?p=9245"},"modified":"2021-11-27T20:50:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T15:05:45","slug":"uk-imposes-africa-travel-restrictions-over-new-covid-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/uk-imposes-africa-travel-restrictions-over-new-covid-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"UK imposes Africa travel restrictions over new COVID variant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Travelers arriving in England from several southern African countries will have to quarantine amid warnings over a new coronavirus variant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid said from 12:00 GMT on Friday six countries would be added to the red list, with flights being temporarily banned.&nbsp;One expert described the variant, known as B.1.1.529, as \u201cthe worst one we\u2019ve seen so far\u201d, and there is concern it has the potential to evade immunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No cases have been confirmed in the UK.&nbsp;Only 59 confirmed cases have been identified in South Africa, Hong Kong and Botswana so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There has been a growing concern about a new variant of coronavirus detected in South African countries, of late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest is the most heavily mutated version discovered so far \u2013 and it has such a long list of mutations that it was described by one scientist as \u201chorrific\u201d, while another told me it was the worst variant they\u2019d seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, it is early days and the confirmed cases are still mostly concentrated in one province in South Africa, but there are hints it may have spread further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>-BBC<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travelers arriving in England from several southern African countries will have to quarantine amid warnings over a new coronavirus variant. UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid said from 12:00 GMT on Friday six countries would be added to the red list, with flights being temporarily banned.&nbsp;One expert described the variant, known as B.1.1.529, as \u201cthe worst [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[445],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9246,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9245\/revisions\/9246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9245"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=9245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}