Travel Restrictions Have Almost No Impact on Spread of COVID-19 Variants: UK Study

British Airways tail fins are pictured at Heathrow Airport in London, on May 17, 2021. John Sibley/Reuters

The impact of travel restrictions on the spread of CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus variants is “very limited,” a new study has shown.

Governments are not able to implement travel restrictions quickly enough for them to be effective in limiting the spread of new COVID-19 variants, said a Jan. 21 report by Edge Health and Oxera, a specialist research consultancy that works with Britain’s National Health Service (NHS).