The country is closing its borders to foreign travellers from all around the world for the first two weeks of 2021, Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi announced, amid concerns over the discovery of a more infectious SARS-CoV-2 variant first detected in the United Kingdom.
Last week, scientists from the UK’s New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group discovered a new strain of the coronavirus that has been spreading rapidly in Britain, Reuters reports.
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