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  • Yes, there's a travel ban from Brazil and actually, I think 14 other South American countries and also Portugal because there is this new variant.

  • We've seen these variants before.

  • There are thousands of them, of course, but some of them, which are more easily transmitted, obviously of greater concern on it's really is a precautionary principle.

  • We we're so close now.

  • We've got three million of these vaccines in people's arms in in the UK We want to make sure we don't fall out this last hurdles.

  • So it's really a precautionary principle.

  • It's come in Ondo.

  • People can't now travel from those locations.

  • So we had a look at this particular mutation, as opposed to the many other thousands very carefully s Aw, that there may be an issue not so much that the vaccine won't work.

  • In fact, scientists think that it will work, but just the fact that it's more spread herbal, as with the version that we've got here on wanted to act as quickly as possible.

  • As it happens, there aren't They haven't bean fights coming from Brazil in the last week, so it's not that they're bean immediate flights, but I think it is important to make sure that we put the additional measures in place, of course, additional to quarantine, which is already in place.

  • Uh, just to make sure we're doing everything sort of belt and braces approach, I suppose you could say.

Yes, there's a travel ban from Brazil and actually, I think 14 other South American countries and also Portugal because there is this new variant.

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