A child in a medical mask during a coronavirus pandemic.
Last week, UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Parliament that at least 60 municipalities recorded Covid-19 infections that had been caused by a new variant of the virus, the BBC reported. He informed MPs of a sharp, exponential rise in coronavirus infections across London, Kent, parts of Essex and Hertfordshire.
Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority on Saturday night notified all the airlines flying to Israel that non-Israelis will no longer be allowed to fly to Israel from the UK because of the new mutation. The ban includes passengers on connection flights that stop in the UK.