Norway extends UK travel ban; Japan refuses arrivals from South Africa; Turkey requires all arrivals to provide proof of negative test
South Korea has posted its second-highest daily number of coronavirus cases, as outbreaks at a prison, nursing homes and churches continued to grow, prompting the health minister to say the country was at a “crossroads of the third wave”. It comes as more countries restricted entry from the UK and South Africa amid fears about new Covid variants.
The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said there were 1,132 new coronavirus cases on Friday, not too far off the record of 1,241 logged on Christmas Eve.
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