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This whole Covid variant thing has me also puzzled.  Tonight on the news South Africa learned that its flights have been banned from the UK from today with immediate effect and some of the other European countries are following the example of the UK because the virus variant from South Africa is according to the UK more contagious than the variant from the UK.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...train.html

Now tonight I read this thread about the UK variant, and am now wondering whether the UK is doing this to South Africa, just to take attention away from how more serious the UK virus is.  I feel very sorry for those from South Africa who flew to the UK recently for Christmas, as they have all been put under immediate quarantine after two of the passengers from South Africa in the UK were found with the virus, and it was found the South African strain is more contagious.  Like how do they decide that?  On what scientific basis?  Also, how will countries be able to use an international vaccine if there are so many different strains of the virus?  And how the dickens can we trust any of this info that comes our way?  Even the stats these days feel sometimes as though they have been faked.  

Exactly, I believe the whole news and this is just a drama to not to make it serious since COVID-19 is already going on and they are probably hiding this. They are saying it spreads 70% faster than COVID-19 then it would obviously will be deadly right? And soon as this was discovered why the sudden ban on flights if its not serious, There is indeed something going on. Some news are saying there are different strains of the virus some are saying there is only that is easily tracible, I honestly feel that this new VUI-202021 is actually different from COVID-19 and can cause serious troubles. 

About stats i think you are right, I have observed this many times and i researched but i didn't got a clear answer ever. If we see the USA Stats daily it changes on hourly basis like increases and increases, But stats of Pakistan on exactly 8AM It's always a fixed number, How is that even possible, Sometimes they say that they already have 20000 - 30000 samples which they are checked but then there is another news that random and live test are being reported.
I'm honestly so confused and even scared at the same time.