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By AFP
The new rules, starting Friday night, will affect South Africa and ‘probably neighboring nations’, Acting Health Minister Jens Spahn said, with only German nationals allowed entry.
BERLIN – Germany and Italy on Friday joined Britain in banning most travel from South Africa as governments scramble to prevent the spread of a new COVID-19 variant with a large number of mutations.
In a sign of the growing alarm, the European Union has separately proposed prohibiting travel from southern Africa.
