London, United Kingdom — European countries banned flights from the UK on Sunday, and the World Health Organization (WHO) called for stronger containment measures as the British government warned that a highly infectious new strain of the virus was “out of control.”
As the WHO urged its European members to strengthen measures against a new variant of COVID-19 circulating in Britain, European nations including Germany, Ireland, Italy, Austria, Romania, The Netherlands, and Belgium said they were moving to block air travel.
A German government source said the restriction could be adopted by the entire 27-member European Union and that countries were also discussing a joint resp…
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