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Added on the 07/09/2021 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, says that travel to countries in southern Africa should be suspended immediately to slow the spread of the the new Covid-19 variant of concern. She also recommends the implementation of strict quarantine for travelers from affected countries and notes that the EU's contracts with the manufacturers of coronavirus vaccines requires the vaccines to be adapted to new variants 'immediately'. SOUNDBITE
Lorry drivers, stuck in the UK, get tested for Covid-19 to cross the Channel at Dover port. France and Britain reopened cross-Channel travel after a 48-hour ban to curb the spread of a new coronavirus variant but thousands of truckers faced being stranded for days near the port of Dover. IMAGES
Cars line up at a Covid-19 drive-through testing site in Miami, Florida, after millions of Americans traveled over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, despite a surge of coronavirus infections in the world's worst-affected country. IMAGES
A Covid-19 testing center in the US capital Washington, DC, the morning after the country surpassed 10 million confirmed coronavirus cases, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally. IMAGES
Passengers undergo temperature checks at the departure hall for domestic flights at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh following a sanitary protocol amid the coronavirus pandemic after Saudi lifted a domestic travel ban. IMAGES 1st IMAGES
Brazil, the hardest-hit Latin American country in the coronavirus pandemic, has surpassed 10,000 deaths, according to figures released Saturday by the Ministry of Health. The country has now recorded 10,627 deaths and 155,939 confirmed cases. VIDEOGRAPHIC
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