amsterdam is one of the world s cities now discovering cases. 13 people were found to have it after flying in from south africa. the police even had to arrest a couple who tried to escape from a quarantine hotel. portugal has also announced it has got 13 cases. all involve a local football club where one of its players had recently returned from a south african trip. many countries don t want to take any chances at all. switzerland has toughened its quarantine requirements. britons entering the country must produce a negative test and quarantine for ten days. morocco is stopping all internationalflights, and japan, where covid infections are low, is doing something similar. translation: we will ban all entries of foreign nationals from all over - the world as of november 30. the head of the world health
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switzerland has also toughened its quarantine requirements for travellers from several european and african countries, while israel, with one case detected, plans to ban the entry of all foreigners for two weeks from sunday night. our news reporter, mark lobel, says israel is alarmed enough to take such action. and the first party because of the success of the vaccine, and now potentially the first to ban arrivals of foreigners from countries over 14 days, because it is an extremely transmissible variant, and it also has, in a very complicated for israel, right at the start of the hanukkah vacations, the festival of light, the festival that lasts eight days with mostly vaccinated children who are unvaccinated taking part.