Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health Chris Fearne posted on Twitter that Malta is to ban travel from a number of countries which are reported to have the new Covid-19 variant, B.1.1.529.
“Travel to and from regions with known cases of the new Covid19 #variant B.1.1.529 to Malta will be temporarily banned from midnight on Saturday. At the moment this includes South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana, Eswatini and, Zimbabwe”.
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