A raft of curbs being imposed by nations around the world as they scramble to slow the variant’s spread also grew, with Israel deciding Sunday to bar entry to foreign nationals in the toughest move so far.have already emerged in several European countries, in Israel and in Hong Kong, just days after it was identified by researchers in South Africa.
Authorities in Australia said two overseas travelers who arrived in Sydney from Africa became the first in the country to test positive for the omicron variant. Arrivals from nine African countries are now required to quarantine in a hotel upon arrival. Two German states reported a total of three cases in returning travelers over the weekend.to ban entry by foreigners and mandate quarantine for all Israelis arriving from abroad.
Many countries have restricted or banned travel from various southern African countries — among the latest New Zealand, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Saudi Arabia. Places that already had imposed restrictions include Brazil, Canada, the EU, Iran, and the U.S. This goes against the advice of the World Health Organization, which has warned against any overreaction before the variant is thoroughly studied.
The United States’ top infectious diseases expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said he would not be surprised if the omicron variant was already in the U.S., though it hasn’t yet been detected there. Italy was going through lists of airline passengers who arrived in the past two weeks after a business traveler who returned from Mozambique and landed in Rome on Nov. 11 tested positive for omicron. The Lazio region’s top health official, Alessio D’Amato, said that “controls at airports, ports and train stations have been reinforced.”
We're the 'arrivals' vaccinated?
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the people out and about, traveling, caused this. all the SA Omicron patients were fully vaccinated. the vaccinated are being very selfish traveling around on planes in a pandemic. the blood is on their hands.
Oh whatever!
Why won’t you people just get vaccinated
Too early to be conclusive or to let guard down, but South African scientists say cases there so far are generally mild, no run on hospitals, those hospitalized are 100% unvaccinated.
It’s the moronic variant.
YYYYYAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNN
Scary...
So weird how this “variant” popped up in another country and is being carried globally to Europe. Not in the USA and not because we’re not vaccinated. This virus is going t continue to happen the more we stay our level of interaction. Get herd immunity
Yoba, duba, dooooo... To all double vaccinated traveller's from South Africa. (The Belgians are OK.) WHOOOOO... in Netherlands?
Did they come up with a new test to differentiate the new variant?
Give it up, there’s no stopping it. If your worried, get the shots. This will be our new way of life
Just stoppppp. No one would even know there was a bad flu season if it wasn’t for the drama on the fake news. No one I know even ended up in the hospital, let alone ICU, let alone died from Covid. And I know a lot of people… it’s a globalist takeover. We all know it
Is the lady in the photograph pointing to a huge, floating version of the omicron variant, floating above the city?
AP why not put your ceo photo？
why this photo ap ?
They didn't warn, they called it a concern because they do not have enough data on it to call it anything. Enough of the drama, please...
Pandemic is over.
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