London — The new Omicron coronavirus variant kept spreading around the world on Sunday, with two cases detected in Australia, even as more countries tried to seal themselves off by imposing travel restrictions.
Austria was investigating a suspected case on Sunday and in France health minister Olivier Veran said the new variant is probably already circulating there. On Sunday, most Gulf stock markets fell sharply in early trade, with the Saudi index suffering its biggest single-day fall in nearly two years. In Britain, where two linked cases of Omicron identified on Saturday were connected to travel to Southern Africa, the government announced measures to try to contain the spread, including stricter testing rules for people arriving in the country and requiring mask wearing in some settings.
Though epidemiologists say travel curbs may be too late to stop Omicron from circulating, many countries — including the US, Brazil, Canada, EU nations, Australia, Japan, South Korea and Thailand — have announced travel bans or restrictions on Southern Africa. More countries imposed such curbs on Sunday, including Indonesia and Saudi Arabia.
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Australia detects cases of the new coronavirus variant as Omicron keeps spreadingTwo passengers in Sydney from Southern Africa test positive, with both asymptomatic and fully vaccinated good. Shouldn't we impose on Botswana to advise where the 4 overseas visitors who brought omicron into their country came from? Maybe Belgium..? The europeans are freely claiming the variant is from southern africa, it's time for us to fight back.. !
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New coronavirus variant Omicron keeps spreading, Australia detects casesTwo passengers who arrived in Sydney from Southern Africa on Saturday evening had tested positive for the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. Both people were asymptomatic, fully vaccinated and in quarantine. So being vaccinated means nothing Fsek, those country already had that variant, they just kept quiet. This nonsense of wanting blame Africa for all these bad thing is kak. Mxim. Which country in Southern Africa? Might as well go all out and state the country.
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Maldives bans travellers from seven African nations as Australia confirms cases of Omicron coronavirus variantMaldives said it was barring travellers from seven African countries from Sunday over concerns about the new Omicron variant of Covid-19.
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World races to contain new COVID-19 variantSeveral European nations announced their first cases of a new coronavirus strain as governments worldwide pulled down the shutters to contain the new Omicron variant. This hype will soon pass, Delta was the Topic and we are now waiting for Omega variant🤔 The world are a bunch of morons, or at least the media houses are.
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Two cases of coronavirus Omicron variant detected in BritainBritain announced it had identified two cases of the new Omicron coronavirus a day after the country temporarily banned flights from South Africa and five other countries from Friday over the newly identified variant. So are they gonna ban their own flights from going to other Countries? Just asking.... The most important question would be - Are those people linked in anyway to anyone from the SADC region? Will be doing any coverage of the 'camps' in Aust? Something about them seems familiar..... Hmmmmmm....
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Maldives bans travellers from seven African nations as Australia confirms cases of Omicron coronavirus variantMaldives said it was barring travellers from seven African countries from Sunday over concerns about the new Omicron variant of Covid-19. Sorry Magda_Wierzycka Mocking bird media does it like clock work, pushing the Chinese Convid agenda, assisting with spreading the word of fear and paranoia among the sheeple of the world. Welcome to the NWO, totalitarian regime
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