Health authorities in France and Lebanon have confirmed their very first cases of the coronavirus variation that prompted global travel restrictions and stringent lockdown procedures in the UK.
The French health ministry stated a French man who got here in France from the British capital, London, on December 19 had actually tested favorable for the brand-new version on Friday.
He had no symptoms and was isolating in his home in the central city of Tours.
Authorities have actually performed contact-tracing for the health professionals looking after the client, the ministry said. Any of their contacts that were viewed as vulnerable would likewise be isolated, it stated.
In addition to this first case, several other positive samples that “may recommend the VOC 202012/01 version are being sequenced” by the expert laboratories of the national Pasteur Institute, the declaration added.
In Lebanon, the country’s caretaker health minister stated on Friday that a case of the new variation was discovered on a flight showing up from London.
The Middle East Airlines flight 202 got here on December 21, Hamad Hassan said, advising all passengers on the flight and their households to take preventive steps.
Italian authorities have actually discovered the brand-new strain in a patient in Rome, while Japan reported 5 cases in passengers getting here from the UK. Singapore verified one case of the brand-new variation, while the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that nine cases have actually been found in Denmark and one each in the Netherlands and Australia.
More than 50 countries have actually banned travel from the UK after British Prime Minister enforced a rigorous lockdown in London and cautioned that the new variant could be up to 70 percent more transmissible. The United States on Thursday stated it will require all travelers arriving from the UK to present an unfavorable COVID-19 test for entry, while China suspended all flights from Britain over the brand-new strain.
Other countries that have suspended travel for Britons include France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Ireland, Belgium, Canada, India, Pakistan, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, and Jordan.
In the Gulf, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman closed their borders totally.
Authorities in France, following a breeze 48- hour travel ban this week, reopened its borders to the UK– partly to permit French people to return home, in addition to eliminate the huge accumulation of freight goods– however had instituted a testing policy.
France’s interior ministry stated Thursday that limits on travel from the UK will continue “until at least January 6”.
For now, just citizens of France or the EU, those with residency rights there or company travellers are enabled to make the crossing from the UK– if they can reveal an unfavorable COVID-19 test less than three days old.
British Health Secretary Matt Hancock had actually said on December 14 that a spike in COVID cases in the UK might have been connected to the new variant of the virus which more than 1,000 cases of the new variation had been identified, generally in southeastern England.
Before Christmas, the health minister had actually announced the expansion of stringent lockdown measures throughout further parts of the south of England to include the spread of the disease.
With more than 68,000 deaths from the virus, the UK is among the hardest-hit countries in Europe.
Nations worldwide have in current days closed their borders to both the UK and South Africa following the recognition of cases of the brand-new, fast-spreading version of the coronavirus in those nations.
France, meanwhile, signed up 20,262 brand-new, validated COVID-19 cases and 159 more related deaths in health centers in the last 24 hours.
France’s number of validated COVID-19 cases now stands at 2,547,771 while its COVID-19 death toll has actually reached 62,427– the seventh-highest on the planet.
Lebanon, with an approximated population of 6 million people, has actually reported more than 165,000 cases and 1,000 deaths as an outcome of COVID-19
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