Omicron variant: What are the latest travel rules?
The heavily mutated omicron variant of coronavirus has been detected in at least 17 states of the US, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, as stricter travel rules will come into effect from Monday.
For the first time in two months, the US is recording more than 100,000 new daily Covid cases, around 10 days after millions of people in the country celebrated the Thanksgiving holidays.
Health officials in the US are in frequent communication with counterparts and experts in South Africa, where the new variant was first reported, Dr Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease doctor, said on CNN.
“Thus far, it does not look like there’s a great degree of severity to it,” Dr Fauci said. “But we have really got to be careful before we make any determinations that it is less severe or it really doesn’t cause any severe illness, comparable to [the] delta [variant].”
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