{"id":6676,"date":"2021-11-28T07:43:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T07:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-to-suspend-air-traffic-from-6-countries-in-southern-africa-foreign-ministry"},"modified":"2021-11-28T09:17:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T09:17:10","slug":"mauritius-to-suspend-air-traffic-from-6-countries-in-southern-africa-foreign-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-to-suspend-air-traffic-from-6-countries-in-southern-africa-foreign-ministry","title":{"rendered":"Mauritius to suspend air traffic from 6 countries in Southern Africa: Foreign Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>Port Louis [Mauritius], November 27 (ANI\/Sputnik): Mauritius will suspend flights from six countries in Southern Africa starting Sunday amid the spreading new Omicron coronavirus variant, the foreign ministry said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Following the identification of a new COVID-19 variant (B.1.1.529) in South Africa and neighbouring countries, Government has decided to adopt the following measures with respect to South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana, Eswatini [Swaziland] and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>All commercial passenger flights from South Africa to Mauritius are suspended with effect from 23:59 hours on Sunday 28 November 2021,&#8221; the ministry said in a communique.<\/p>\n<p>Those who were in one of the countries listed above less than 14 days before arriving in Mauritius, will be banned from entering. 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