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Coronavirus: stuck in limbo, Hongkongers stranded in Britain want to know when they will be ...

South China Morning Post 01 Mar 2021

... also extended a ban on flights from Brazil, Ireland and South Africa, where the new strain… .

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Meet the authors | Virtual appearances on tap this week

The Columbus Dispatch 28 Feb 2021

In his investigation of illicit diamond trading, American journalist Matthew Gavin Frank became intrigued with a smuggling method used in South Africa ... His book, “Flight of the Diamond Smugglers. A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession and Greed Along Coastal South Africa” was published Feb.

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Sunday Reads: Our Most Notable Stories This Week

Simple Flying 28 Feb 2021

Monday saw a Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 made its first flight since last June! The aircraft had been in storage in Alice Springs, in the Australian desert, for eight months, before making the short flight to Sydney ... The Icelandair Boeing 767 in question made a stop in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Flying from UAE to Mumbai? Check these new rules for COVID-19 testing, quarantine

Gulf News 27 Feb 2021

They can take the connecting flight by showing the receipt of the test taken ... Transiting passengers arriving from the UK, South Africa and Brazil have to undergo a test and can board a connecting flight out of Maharashtra only when the test results are negative.

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Icelandair’s Antarctic Boeing 767 Flight Continues From Cape Town

Simple Flying 26 Feb 2021

After stopping in Cape Town (South Africa) to pick-up a team of Norwegian researchers, Icelandair’s Boeing 767 is on its final flight to the bottom of the world, where Troll Research Station is located in Antarctica ... Loftleidir will actually be operating the flight, but under the Icelandair Air Operators Certificate.

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UKZN is driven to engineer SA’s aerospace future

Independent online (SA) 26 Feb 2021

“ASReG is doing great work for the country, inspiring students to pursue postgraduate studies and generating interest in rocket propulsion, flight dynamics and airframe design in South Africa, by providing students with exposure to something they may be interested in but would otherwise not have heard of,” Mchunu said.

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Parliamentary committee supports Treasury vaccine allocation

Independent online (SA) 26 Feb 2021

This comes as the flight to fetch Johnson & Johnson doses in Brussels is expected to land at OR Tambo International ... The flight left South Africa on Wednesday and this will be the second batch of vaccines from Johnson & Johnson to be delivered.

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First hotel quarantine passengers relieved to leave UK’s ‘Heathrow prison’

The National 26 Feb 2021

Mother and daughter stuck in UK hotel quarantine after Dubai flight delayed ... Travellers arriving in England must quarantine in a hotel if they have been in one of the government’s 33 red-list countries – which covers Portugal, the UAE, all of South America and southern Africa – in the past 10 days.

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First quarantine passengers relieved to leave UK’s ‘Heathrow prison’

The National 26 Feb 2021

Mother and daughter stuck in UK hotel quarantine after Dubai flight delayed ... Travellers arriving in England must quarantine in a hotel if they have been in one of the Government’s 33 “red list” countries – which covers Portugal, the United Arab Emirates, South America and southern Africa – in the past 10 days.

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Côte d’Ivoire recieves 504,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines from COVAX

Business Day Online 26 Feb 2021

Côte d’Ivoire has become the second country in West Africa to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines from COVAX facility, after Ghana.

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First travellers to be released from hotel quarantine

AOL 26 Feb 2021

Travellers arriving in England must quarantine in a hotel if they have been in one of the Government’s 33 “red list” countries – which covers Portugal, the United Arab Emirates, South America and southern Africa – in the past 10 days. The UK has banned direct flights from those ...

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Sudden Covid-19 curbs create confusion, crowds at airport

The Times of India 25 Feb 2021

The order said international passengers coming/transiting from flight originating from the UK, Brazil, South Africa, Europe and Middle East will have to undergo test on arrival and cannot exit until the result is negative ... “They will be allowed to board connecting flights or exit the airport only after they test negative.

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Rizwan, Fawad rewarded for consistent performances

The News International 25 Feb 2021

Hafeez has been one of our star performers of the season and we hope he will carry the form and momentum to Africa,” Khan said ... He said that effort would be made to arrange chartered flights for Pakistan’s team tours of Zimbabwe and South Africa ... chartered flights for the team.