France has suspended all flights to and from Brazil due to the Brazilian variant of the corona virus. The country is also enacting a mandatory ten-day quarantine for travelers from Brazil, Argentina, Chile and South Africa out of concerns about several coronavirus variants. Air traffic to and from Argentina, Chile and South Africa will continue.
The situation in Brazil has been deteriorating since February due to an outbreak of a local variant of the virus. The more contagious corona variant P1, which surfaced in the Amazon region in December, is of particular concern because it spreads almost half faster than the ‘classic’ version of the virus. The Brazilian variant may also be more resistant to vaccines and antibodies in humans who have previously had corona.
The fact that flights from Argentina, Chile and South Africa are still going on is, according to the French authorities, because the presence of Covid variants in those countries has not yet reached the same alarming level as in Brazil.
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