what reaction has there been so far? all countries were cleared from the uk travel medallist three weeks ago but it was kept as a preventative measure and indeed it is being used as a six country travel ban. that has been caused by the finding of 59 confirmed cases of this variant in south africa plus another four cases in botswana and one in hong kong. this is the most heavily mutated variant so far of coronavirus and there are concerns about how fast it can spread and also how fast it can spread and also how effective vaccines are against it. both of those are unknown at the moment so the uk has banned travel from six african countries. that show you which ones they are. south africa, botswana, namibia, lesotho, s martini and