A sign indicates that masks are required in the historic city center during a hard nationwide lockdown ahead of Christmas in Leipzig, Germany, Dec. 19, 2020, amid a Communist Chinese virus pandemic.
The Communist Chinese virus epidemic has been raging around the world for more than a year. The U.K. health minister confirmed on Sunday that a “difficult to control” variant of a new strain of the virus has been discovered in the U.K., making the outbreak 70 percent more potent than the original strain. At least 10 countries have banned flights from entering the UK.
As of December 20, France, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Latvia, Estonia, Turkey, Israel, and Saudi Arabia have banned all international flights, including those from the United Kingdom, in response to the discovery of a new variant of the Chinese Communist virus.
German Health Minister Jens Spahn also announced on the 20th, from the 21st zero hour, to restrict British and South African citizens by sea, rail or road into German territory.
They take “this new threat” very seriously and are studying its consequences at expert level, especially for the “new virus variants” in the UK, said Spahn. He said that Germany is one of the European countries more affected by the outbreak and that a faster spread would significantly change the “rules”.
As the epidemic continues to worsen, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced on the 13th: from 16 to January 10 next year will be “partially closed” to upgrade to “hard closure”.
On October 12, 2020, Johnson is shown on TV in a pub in England proposing a new level 3 alert system for epidemic prevention.
Among the countries that have issued bans on British flights, the Czech Republic has not rejected British airliners, but all those entering from the UK must be forced to quarantine for 10 days; Saudi Arabia has extended the ban across the board, suspending all international flights and land and sea entry for 1 week; Turkey has banned flights from the UK, South Africa, the Netherlands and Denmark.
Israel banned entry of foreigners from the UK, Denmark and South Africa. Israeli authorities have announced that Israelis returning from these countries will also be restricted to hotels controlled by the military and used as quarantine centers, the Israeli prime minister and health minister said in a joint statement. Currently, Israel has set up a special emergency team.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex has also said that due to new health risks, round-trip British and French traffic will be suspended for at least 48 hours starting at midnight on the 20th, and that the Port of Dover and the British-French Crossing have subsequently been closed.
French police control people disembarking from a plane at Napoleon Bonaparte airport in Ajaccio, on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, December 19, 2020, where passengers need to test negative for the Chinese Communist virus to enter Corsica.
Ireland, for its part, announced a ban on British flights on the 21st and 22nd, with no one of any nationality allowed to fly there, while Italy said that in addition to British flights not being allowed to land, people who had been to the UK in the past 14 days would not be allowed to enter.
Portugal only allows Portuguese nationals to fly home from the UK, and must test negative for the Chinese Communist virus before boarding; Belgium will prevent British passengers from entering for 24 hours from the 21st, and may extend the ban.
The Netherlands and Latvia announced a ban on British flights until Jan. 1 next year. The Netherlands also banned British ferries; Estonia also suspended air traffic with Britain until the end of the year.
The picture shows the British Parliament building in London.
Before that, the British government announced on Dec. 15 that the Department of Public Health had detected a new strain of the Chinese Communist virus in the United Kingdom through monitoring of the virus genome, which is 70 percent more transmissible than the original strain, but there is no evidence yet that the new strain is more lethal.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (Boris Johnson) announced on the 19th that the originally scheduled Christmas vaccination plan had to be cancelled due to the more rapid spread of the new strain of the virus.
British Health Minister Matt Hancock told AFP on Nov. 20 that the Chinese Communist virus has mutated into a new strain that is “difficult to control” and has made the outbreak spread even faster. Because the situation is “quite serious,” strict precautionary measures are likely to continue until the Communist pneumonia vaccine is fully inoculated.
Festive lights hang on an otherwise quiet Carnaby Street in London, England, Dec. 20, 2020.
Back on Nov. 25 Reuters reported that researchers found that the CCP virus mutates as it spreads around the world, and that more than 10,000 mutations or changes have been identified. The study used the viral genomes of 46,723 confirmed cases from 99 countries or regions.
The researchers determined that there are 12,706 mutations or changes in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
As of Dec. 21, Beijing time, the SARS-CoV outbreak that originated in Wuhan, Hubei province, has been raging around the world for more than a year. It has caused more than 72 million infections; more than 1.7 million deaths. The number of new cases worldwide recently exceeded 600,000 in a single day, six times the first wave and the spring peak. (The Chinese Communist Party is in the habit of concealing epidemic data; the true figure is much higher than the public one)
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