Rwanda imposes 7-day quarantine for travellers as new Covid-19 variant emerges

 

What you need to know:

• Rwanda joins the European Union, the United States, Israel, United Arab Emirates, the UK, among others, that have suspended flights to southern Africa.
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• WHO, however, warns that it might be too late to impose flight bans as the new variant has already spread to a dozen countries.

Rwanda has imposed a seven-day quarantine for passengers arriving in Kigali who have recently been to countries affected by the new Covid-19 variant.