President Biden Announces Travel Restrictions On Eight South African Countries In An Effort To Slow The Spread Of New COVID-19 Variant

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The contention to halt the dispersed of different COVID-19 variant.

“We don’t cognize a batch astir the variant but that it is of large interest it seems to dispersed rapidly,” said President Biden.

The caller variant Omicron was archetypal reported successful South Africa connected Wednesday is mutating quickly. Health experts fearfulness it could beryllium much transmissible than the Delta variant.

“It is thing that has emerged successful South Africa and is spreading astatine a reasonably accelerated rate,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci.

It prompted countries astir the satellite to enforce question restrictions Friday. The United States did the aforesaid based connected proposal from the CDC.

“There’s nary question to and from South Africa and six different countries but for American citizens who are capable to travel back,” said President Biden.

The World Health Organization met Friday to sermon Omicron classifying it arsenic a “variant of concern.”

“This variant has a ample fig of mutations and the interest is erstwhile you person truthful galore mutations, it tin person an interaction connected however the microorganism behaves,” said Maria Van Kerkhove.

Omicron has yet to beryllium detected successful the United States but has dispersed to different countries including Israel and Belgium.

“There’s a batch of travel, you ne'er cognize precisely wherever it is. That’s the crushed we’re getting unneurotic with them to effort and get the precise molecular constitution of it truthful we tin trial for it,” Dr. Fauci added.

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Pfizer and Moderna are moving to find if their vaccines are effectual against the caller variant. Pfizer says they should cognize successful astir 2 weeks.