Thirty endangered white rhinos arrived in Rwanda on Monday after a long journey from South Africa in a Boeing 747, conservationists said, hailing it as the largest single transfer of the species ever undertaken. The group that consists of 19 females and 11 males aged between four years and 27 years was secured from &Beyond…
United States president, Joe Biden, has announced the country will tighten entry requirements in response to growing concerns over the new Omicron variant of Covid-19. From Monday, passengers flying to the US will need to show a negative Covid-19 test performed within one day of departure. The country earlier recorded its first official Omicron case,…
A woman attacked two flight attendants on a Spirit Airlines flight to Nashville on Saturday night, was restrained by a fellow passenger. Airport police arrested a 42-year old female for public intoxication after the flight crew contacted officers on the ground at Nashville International Airport around 7 p.m., an arrest affidavit said. The flight took…
London’s Heathrow airport has reopened its Terminal 4 as a separate arrivals facility for countries on the government’s Covid “red list” as of Wednesday. Travelers arriving from red-list countries will be kept away from passengers in all other operational terminals, it said in a press release.In additional response to the risk posed by the Omicron…
Japan said Wednesday that it has asked airlines to suspend new bookings for flights entering the country through the end of the year, effectively sealing its borders for everyone, including Japanese citizens, unless they have a pre-existing reservation. The move, a response to the Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus, marks the first time during…
President Joe Biden urged Americans not to panic Monday as scientists and public health officials assess the threat of the new Omicron coronavirus variant, asking Americans to redouble their commitment to measures that could halt the spread of virus Biden’s Monday afternoon update on Omnicron represented the administration’s latest attempt to assure Americans that they…
A couple was arrested in the Netherlands after escaping hotel quarantine, Dutch police said. They added that the arrests took place on a plane that was about to take off. The couple, a 30-year-old man from Spain and a 28-year-old Portuguese woman, were handed over to the health authorities, police told AFP. One of the…
Authorities in Japan have confirmed the destination will bar entry to visitors from around the world as fears over a new Covid-19 variant grow. The decision comes just weeks after the country softened entry rules, largely in place since the outbreak of the pandemic last spring. “We will ban the new entry of foreigners from…
The Moroccan authorities have decided to suspend all direct passenger flights to the Kingdom of Morocco, for a period of 2 weeks, from Monday, November 29, 2021 at 11:59 p.m.
Israel is to ban foreigners from entering the country for 14 days and use surveillance to halt the spread of the new Covid strain, local media report. The ban is expected to come into effect at midnight on Sunday, following full cabinet approval. Israel has so far confirmed one case of the potentially more infectious…
UK has added ten southern African countries to their red list and will require all arrivals to do a day 2 PCR test and self-isolate until they have got a negative result. The return of the red list comes after the B.1.1.529 COVID-19 variant, also known as ‘Omicron’, was detected in South Africa and Botswana.…
Dutch health authorities said that 61 people who arrived in Amsterdam on two flights from South Africa on Friday tested positive for Covid-19. Around 600 passengers arrived at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport on the two KLM flights on Friday and then faced hours of delays and testing due to concerns over the new virus variant. UPDATE…