WHO says vaccination, not travel curbs, key to battling Omicron

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Every country and community must prepare for new surges in cases.

The World Health Organization urged countries to boost healthcare capacity and vaccinate their people to fight a surge in Covid-19 cases driven by the Omicron variant and said travel curbs could buy time but alone were not the answer.

Despite shutting its borders to travel from high-risk southern African countries, Australia became the latest country to report community transmission of the new variant, a day after it was found in five US states.

 

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I am a little confused here. Since only vaccinated people are allowed to travel, are they the ones spreading the virus?

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