COUNTRIES around the world have begun banning flights and travelers from Britain as UK Prime Minister and Health Scientists announced the spread of a new more infectious coronavirus strain was now “out of Control”. The British government confirmed the reports that new strain of coronavirus is 70% more infectious then previous one. This announcement created huge panic in the International community. After the announcement of the British government, several Countries of the world rushed to implementation of precautionary measures and immediately imposed ban on flights coming from UK. The new coronavirus variant is said to spread much faster and accounts for more than 60% of new cases in London. As per reports about nine cases of new coronavirus strain has been detected in Denmark. South Africa also detected few cases of new coronavirus variant in the country. Two cases were detected in Australia and one case each in Italy and Netherlands. While talking to media British Prime Minister rightly said that “when virus changes its method of attack, we must change our method of defense”.
The countries-imposed ban on flights coming from UK include Hong Kong, Canada, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, El Salvador, Argentina, Chile, Morocco, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, France, Germany and Pakistan. Several Countries including Canada, Saudi Arabia and South Africa announced that the travelers already arrived from UK in the past days will be subject to secondary screening and other advanced measures. UK Prime Minister Bores Johnson said that London and Southeast England, which is currently in the highest level of a three-tier system of rules, would now be placed in a new tier 4 level. According to media reports, about 21 million people entered in complete lockdown restrictions in London, Southeast and Eastern England and Wales on Sunday to curb the spread of the new coronavirus strain. World Health Organization (WHO) is closely working with British government on new variant of coronavirus. WHO informed the world that UK will continue share information and results of their analysis on ongoing studies with WHO. WHO will further update its members states and general public about characterists of new virus variant and any implications in this regard. As per analysis of the economists and financial institutions, the economic impact will be even bigger retrenchment as more people are less able because of strict restrictions and greater health concerns to interact economically.
