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Family stranded in South Africa as travel ban over mutant virus strain kicks in

Marina Wessolowski, a Berlin-based businesswoman who is stranded in Cape Town with her husband Achim and daughters, Emma and Clara. [Reuters]

When businesswoman Marina Wessolowski arrived in Cape Town on Dec. 12 she was looking forward to spending Christmas with family and friends before flying back to Germany early next month.

But the emergence of a new, fast-spreading strain of the coronavirus in South Africa means that she, her husband and two daughters are now uncertain when they will be able to return home.

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