The UN World Tourism Organisation says any travel curbs decisions should be made immediately.
Countries need to decide "today" on applying travel restrictions over the emergence of a new coronavirus variant in southern Africa and make such rules uniform, especially in Europe, head of the Madrid-based United Nations' tourism body says.
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"My recommendation will be to take decisions today, not after one week, because if it continues to spread as we are expecting then it will be late and will make no sense to apply restrictions," UN World Tourism Organisation Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili told Reuters.
He added that countries need to follow recommendations by the World Health Organisation in drawing up travel rules.
Australian Associated Press
