LONDON (AFP): European countries banned flights from the UK on Sunday (Dec 20) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) called for stronger containment measures as the British government warned that a potent new strain of the virus was "out of control".
As the WHO urged its European members to strengthen measures against a new variant of Covid-19 circulating in Britain, the Netherlands imposed a ban on UK flights from 6:00am (0500 GMT) on Sunday and Belgium said it would follow suit from midnight with a ban on planes and trains from the UK.
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