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Five countries ban flights from S.Africa over Covid-19 variant
Travellers queue at a South African Airways information counter at the O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Photo credit: Michele Spatari | AFP
At least five countries have suspended flights from South Africa after a coronavirus variant was recently discovered in the country.
Germany, Turkey, Israel, Switzerland and Saudi Arabia are among the countries that have announced the banning of such flights to prevent the spread of a variant of the SARS-COV-2 virus currently termed 501.V2 Variant. The ban was coming into effect on Monday in most of these countries.
