EU, UK, Israel to halt air travel to southern Africa over new COVID-19 variant
World Health Organization warns leaders against ‘knee-jerk responses.’ Nations took swift action Friday to halt air travel from southern Africa in reaction to news of a new, transmissible COVID-19 variant. Although the World Health Organization (WHO) cautioned against hastily imposing travel restrictions linked to the B.1.1.529 variant, warning officials to avoid “knee-jerk responses,” the 27-nation…