Europe Moves To Stop Flights From Southern Africa Over COVID-19 Variant 

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PARIS—The European Commission wants to use its emergency-brake mechanism to halt travel to the European Union from some countries in southern Africa because of the emergence of a new COVID-19 variant that scientists worry may be more transmissible. “The European Commission will propose, in close...
Helen Massy-Beresford

Based in Paris, Helen Massy-Beresford covers European and Middle Eastern airlines, the European Commission’s air transport policy and the air cargo industry for Aviation Week & Space Technology and Aviation Daily.

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