Seoul-Sana
South Korea decided to extend the ban on direct flights coming from Britain for another two weeks, until February 11th.
Yonhap quoted health authorities as saying in a statement today that the aim of this measure is to prevent the spread of the new strain of the emerging corona virus that was discovered for the first time in Britain.
Flights from Heathrow Airport in London were banned from the 23rd to 31st of last month, after the mutated strain of Corona was discovered in Britain, and it was extended again after that period.
South Korea recorded 27 cases of mutated strains of the Coronavirus, including 19 cases of the mutated strain discovered in Britain, 5 cases of the mutated strain discovered in South Africa, and 3 cases of the mutated strain discovered in Brazil.
