Australia bans travellers from virus-hit Southern Africa

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Australia imposed new restrictions on Saturday on people who have been to nine southern African countries, as the new Omicron variant of Covid-19 raises concerns about another wave of the pandemic.

The countries are SA, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, the Seychelles, Malawi and Mozambique.

These restrictions also apply to people such as international students and skilled migrants arriving from countries with which Australia has travel bubbles, who have been in any of the nine countries within the past 14 days. Anyone who has already arrived in Australia and who has been in any of those countries within the past 14 days must immediately isolate and be tested.

Twenty travellers from SA are in quarantine in the Northern Territory's Howard Springs facility, 19 of whom have returned negative coronavirus tests. It is not yet known if the one positive test result is the Omicron variant, Hunt said.

 

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🤔🤔nooooo

Virus hit Southern Africa? This is a joke!

Virus hit with 2k cases

I wonder when they will ban the whole world... the new variant is also in Europe and Hong Kong. It won't take long before it's everywhere

Beziphi nha ezinzululwazi all along kukhankaswa?.

Does it have to do with Kissinger's speech of 2009 at the WHO? Like here:

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