FILE PHOTO: Pegasus Airlines self check-in counters are seen at the nearly empty domestic departure terminal of the Sabiha Gokcen Airport, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Istanbul, Turkey June 11, 2020. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has banned Britons from entering the country after detecting 15 cases of a new and more contagious variant of the coronavirus in travellers from Britain, the government said on Friday.
Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said the 15 travellers have been isolated, as have those with whom they were in contact. No other cases of the COVID-19 variant have been detected in nationwide regular screenings.
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