Omicron: Keep calm and carry on vaccinating

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There has been swift, early warning about the new variant but that only means there is still a lot of work to be done

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Countries have responded by implementing travel restrictions on South Africa. Picture: LEON NEAL/BLOOMBERG

Now it’s up to governments and local authorities to adapt to a fast-changing viral picture — one that remains blurry in places. Certainly, Omicron’s transmissibility seems extremely high. The WHO was alerted on November 24 and says the variant was identified from a specimen collected on November 9. It is already in evidence in most of SA’s provinces, along with Botswana, and cases have been found in Hong Kong, Israel and Belgium. It’s quite likely it has spread beyond those places, too.

However, when a flight from Johannesburg arrived in London on Friday, about 300 passengers were released into the wild with only an advisory message to self-isolate and take some tests.

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Some towns in EU are 99.5% vaccinated and infections are soaring and hospitals can’t cope , what now 👀

WHAT. I thought you had smart journalist on board. BD.

Or... And I know this is hard for the brainwashed... Stop vaccinating and creating variants...

Keep jabbing, fill up the hospitals, create uncertainty with false information, vaxxed ppl are traveling with their vaxxed passports transmitting mutations, the unvaxxed are well for they know 99.997% chance of a cure and survival

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