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UK Travel rules explained: Flight bans, quarantines and testing rules in full

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Travel from South America to the UK will be banned from Monday - adding 16 countries to the list of prohibited destinations.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the "urgent decision" to restrict flights from the nations was taken to reduce the potential spread of the new strain, with experts uncertain how effective existing vaccines will be against it.

Scientists analysing the Brazilian variant believe the mutations it shares with the new South African strain seem to be associated with a rapid increase in cases in locations where previous attack rates are thought to be very high.

Brazil had already temporarily suspended flights from or via the UK as of December 25 over concerns about the highly infectious coronavirus strain that has been

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