Coronavirus: Philippines bans travellers from 20 nations with UK variant detected

The Philippines has decided to bar travellers from 20 nations with the new Covid-19 strain detected in Britain that has undergone numerous mutations, Labour Secretary Silvestre Bello said on Tuesday.These include Australia, Britain, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the Netherlands. Bello did not say when the ban would take effect.Filipino workers returning from these…

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