Tagged:

U.S. Imposes Ban on Travellers from South Africa - Report

United States President Joe Biden has banned most non-U.S. citizens who have recently been in South Africa from entering the country, in a bid to contain the spread of a new variant of Covid-19. The Financial Times reports that Jen Psaki, the new White House press secretary, said on January 25, 2021 that Biden had "decided to maintain the restrictions previously in place for the European Schengen area, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Brazil, with the pandemic worsening and more contagious variant contagious variants spreading". She added that "in light of the contagious variant", South Africa would also be added to the restriction list.

South Africa: U.S. Set to Impose Ban on Travellers from South Africa - Report

allAfrica, 25 January 2021

United States President Joe Biden is set to ban most non-U.S. citizens who have recently been in South Africa from entering the country, in a bid to contain the spread of a new… Read more »
South Africa: Proclamation on the Suspension of Entry of People Who Pose a Risk of Transmitting Coronavirus Disease

White House, 25 January 2021

The Federal Government must act swiftly and aggressively to combat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The national emergency caused by the COVID-19 outbreak in the… Read more »
South Africa: Why New Covid-19 Variants Are On the Rise and Spreading Around the World

The Conversation Africa, 21 January 2021

A new variant of coronavirus has swept across the United Kingdom and been detected in the United States, Canada and elsewhere. Scientists are concerned that these new strains may… Read more »
South Africa: South African Scientists Who Discovered New Covid-19 Variant Share What They Know

The Conversation Africa, 22 January 2021

Late last year the Network for Genomic Surveillance in South Africa (NGS-SA) led by the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP) identified a rapidly… Read more »
Kenya: Kenya Records Two Cases of New South Africa Coronavirus Variant

Nation, 21 January 2021

Kenya has recorded two cases of the new coronavirus variant first seen in South Africa. Read more »
South Africa: South Africa's Scientists Say the 501Y.V2 Variant Moves More Easily and Faster, but It's Not More Deadly

Daily Maverick, 19 January 2021

South Africa already has a clearer picture of the Covid-19 variant 501Y.V2 just a month after it was first detected and described to the public. While it may travel more easily and… Read more »