WHO urges travellers to wear masks as new Covid variant spreads

LONDON, Jan 11 ― Countries should consider recommending that passengers wear masks on long-haul flights, given the rapid spread of the latest Omicron subvariant of Covid-19 in the United States, World Health Organisation officials said yesterday.

XBB.1.5 ― the most transmissible Omicron subvariant detected so far ― accounted for 27.6 per cent of Covid-19 cases in the United States for the week ended January 7, health officials have said. That did not mean the agency recommended testing for passengers from the United States at this stage, she added.

According to data reported by the WHO earlier this month, an analysis by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention showed a predominance of Omicron sublineages BA.5.2 and BF.7 among locally acquired infections. Last week, the EU's Integrated Political Crisis Response group , is a body made up of officials from the EU's 27 governments, also recommended all passengers on flights to and from China should wear face masks and random testing of passengers arriving from China.

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