The 14 countries which have been identified as ‘at risk’ and therefore see restricted services include the UK, France, Germany, China, Botswana among others. South Africa, Botswana, Hong Kong where the new Covid variant has ...
Israel is barring entry to all foreigners, making it the first country to shut its borders completely in response to the new and potentially more contagious Omicron coronavirus variant. Key points: Israel has already recorded one case ...
Australia banned flights from nine southern African countries on Saturday, tightening its borders to prevent the entry of the new Covid-19 Omicron variant. Non-Australians who visited South Africa, Zimbabwe and several other nations in the ...
The World Health Organization on Friday declared the recently-discovered B.1.1.529 strain of Covid-19, first detected in southern Africa, to be a variant of concern and renamed it Omicron. The classification puts Omicron into the most-troubling ...