Angola: TAAG to operate three repatriation flights today – from South Africa, Mozambique and Namibia

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Angola: TAAG to operate three repatriation flights today – from South Africa, Mozambique and Namibia

9:28 CAT | 30 Nov 2021

File photo. Lusa

Angolan airline TAAG will carry out repatriation flights from South Africa, Mozambique and Namibia on Tuesday due to the suspension of flights to these destinations because of the new variant of coronavirus.

Angola has announced it will close borders with seven African countries – South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe – as of 1 December, which led TAAG on Sunday to suspend its scheduled flights to Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa.

To return passengers who are in these countries, TAAG will run a Luanda-Johannesburg-Luanda flight on Tuesday departing at 18:00 and due to arrive in the South African city at 22:25 local time; a Luanda-Maputo-Luanda link departing at 23:59 and arriving in the Mozambican capital at 05:00 local time, and a Luanda-Windhoek-Luanda flight departing at 17:00 and arriving at 20:30 in the Namibian capital.

Nationals will have to observe a 14-day home quarantine, according to the latest presidential decree updating measures to prevent and combat Covid-19 Several countries, including Portugal, have applied flight restrictions with several African countries after a new variant of the coronavirus, Omicron, was detected in South Africa, which according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), may involve greater infectivity due to “a high number of mutations”.

The discovery of this new coronavirus variant, identified as B.1.1.529 and named with the Greek letter Omicron by the World Health Organisation (WHO), was announced last Thursday by South African scientists and health authorities, based on samples collected between 14 and 16 November.

Source: Lusa