A new COVID-19 variant that can evade vaccines called the B.1.1.529 has appeared in Southern Africa and it is causing alarm among global health officials.
Travellers returning from South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Eswatini will be forced to quarantine for 10 days at a government facility in the UK.
The B.1.1.529 Sars-Cov-2 variant has the ability to evade vaccines and transmit faster than the Delta variant. The strain, first identified in Botswana, is believed to be behind a resurgence in Covid cases in South Africa over the past week.
