South African travel ban is about buying time before Nu variant spreads globally, says Grant Shapps - The Times

It is unlikely that the Nu coronavirus variant has arrived in Britain, Grant Shapps has said, as he warned the spread of the mutation around the world was “inevitable”.

The transport secretary said that the government’s decision to ban travel from South Africa and five other southern African countries from noon today was about “buying time”.

A senior health official warned that the variant spreading in South Africa was the most “complex” and “worrying” seen yet. Dr Susan Hopkins, the chief medical adviser at the UK Health Security Agency, said that the Nu variant had twice as many mutations as the Delta variant. “The first look at it shows it has a variety of different mutations, it’s got 30 different mutations that seem relevant, that’s

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