Told ya...
...South Africa's Health Minister Joe Phaahla described the variant as 'a major threat', warning that it was behind an 'exponential' increase in cases across the country.
Experts in the UK today called for travel restrictions to be reimposed to prevent the strain being seeded here and avoid risking a repeat of this spring when the Delta variant was imported in huge numbers from India.
Zero-Covid scientist Professor Christina Pagel urged ministers to 'get ahead of this right now' by immediately' reimposing the red travel list ' — which was only scrapped a few weeks ago.
And Chris Snowdon, an economist who is normally in favour of fewer restrictions, also called for an immediate travel ban....
He admitted he was still 'uncertain' about the impact of the variant — which could be named 'Nu' by the WHO within days — on the country's epidemic, with other scientists saying that it might be so evolved that it becomes unstable....
Fears are mounting that a new Covid variant believed to have emerged in Botswana is driving a surge in cases in neighbouring South Africa.
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