like sars which looked unlikely at this stage, but if it was, for the sake of argument, the point is to make sure that any spill over cases can be rapidly contained so it never establishes itself in the uk. you are not saying this will turn into a pandemic, but what we don t want to say is have any backwash from this. we had importation from sars and ebola, we picked them up and treated them, and that is the first thing to say, and if it is going to be a pandemic, you can never stop it, and there is an illusion you can stop it, but you can t. you can delay it and that is where a lot of the debate around border and other measures then took us but what we wanted people to realise, when you are in pandemic territory, the idea of stopping it is an illusion. you can delay it, potentially, maybe. when you referred to the minority being when you referred to the minority being prevent, you mean that the virus being prevent, you mean that the virus could being prevent, you mean
tomorrow, if you are planning any travel keep an eye on the travel news because they will be strong winds across the country to begin with, slowly easing down and a mixture of rain, sleet and snow good covering of snow over the hills in the north and sleet further south as well. temperatures are one to 6 degrees, an icy wind chill to go with it. the low pressure clears away and quieter on sunday. thank you, see you in the next half an hour. as we ve been hearing this morning, a new coronavirus variant of concern has been identified in south africa, hong kong and botswana. to try to stop uk transmission, several south african countries have been placed on the travel red list. we are talking to an epidemiologist. unfortunately we are talking about this again, six countries on the red