Canada bans travel from seven African countries over new Covid strain - Punch Newspapers

Canada on Friday banned foreign travelers from seven African countries — Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe — over concerns about the spread of a new Covid strain.

Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos made the announcement, joining a step taken by several other countries, including the United States as well as the European Union, after the World Health Organisation declared the recently discovered B.1.1.529 strain of Covid-19 to be a “variant of concern,” renaming it Omicron.

“We are acting quickly in order to protect the health and safety of Canadians,” Duclos told a news conference. “We know very little about this variant right now,” said Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam, “including how transmissible it is and whether it increases the severity of illness or what the impact is on the vaccine.

“But because of so many mutations in specific areas of the genome, we’re taking this precautionary measure,” she said.

Nigeria will be included before the end of January. Na there all of us go come hook finally

Am beginning to fear this COVID. Na so the whole world go dey do open and close?

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