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'Worst ever' super mutant Covid variant: Hunt for passengers who just arrived in UK
Coronavirus with them, has begun.Alarm bells started ringing last night, when Health Minister Sajid Javid confirmed that six African countries were being added to the Red travel list, due to the dangerousness of the new variant – known as the “nu” variant.Anyone coming from South Africa and its surrounding countries Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana, Eswatini and Zimbabwe will be forced to quarantine for 10 days upon arrival.There are worries that the new variant is more transmissible and that the current vaccines are less effective in fighting it.The long-term worry is that, should this variant spread out of control, then the country will be plunged back into the depths of a UK-wide lockdown just before Christmas.Mr Sajid said: “Our scientists