“Brazil will close air borders for African countries due to a new variant of the coronavirus.
We will protect Brazilians in this new phase of the pandemic, ”he wrote on his Twitter account.
According to the representative of the office of the head of state, the corresponding order will be published on Saturday, November 27, and will come into force on November 29.
It will affect passengers from Botswana, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Namibia, Eswatini and South Africa.
On November 25, it became known that scientists have identified a new omicron coronavirus strain in Botswana, South Africa and Hong Kong, which can potentially become the most dangerous.
Air traffic with a number of African countries has already been suspended by Russia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Germany, Israel and the United Kingdom.