Covid news live: Omicron variant spreads to Europe; countries rush to impose travel bans on southern Africa

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The first European case of the B.1.1.529 variant has been identified in Belgium; the US, UK, Australia, Canada and parts of Europe impose travel bans targeting countries across southern Africa

As Europe braces for a possible outbreak of the new Omicron coronavirus variant, here is a quick visual refresh of where the continent stands in its fight against the coronavirus. This updated map indicates incidence rates across Europe.

 

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Ha ha ha. The Labour Party now recommends going against scientific advise together with its usual glib statement to get a grip. Not a single specific solution. No surprise there.

Banning travel to a country just because they identified virus strains that started elsewhere is counterproductive. These governments are promoting secretiveness and the coverup of essential data needed to understand disease transmission. Total failure assured.

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This is BS!! China must start paying for the damage they caused to our economy!! COVID19 SouthAfrica

Crazy

The person in the middle is technically wearing a mask, and they're doing great! Unfortunately, none of those masks are M95 or better, so they all do virtually nothing anyway...

Africa travel van but not Belgium? Seems a bit short sighted..

Masks on, USA. (of course the 3 injections ;-)

nice

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