The two travelers are in isolation along with 12 other passengers who came from southern Africa, the ministry said. Australia has banned the entry of foreigners who have traveled to nine southern African countries in the past 14 days, including South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, and Zimbabwe.
Meanwhile, South Korea has imposed restrictions on travelers from eight southern African countries, its Disease Control and Prevention Agency announced Saturday. The issuing of visas for nationals from those countries has been suspended until further notice, it added.
Korean nationals entering from those countries must quarantine in a government-designated facility for 10 days. Europe is also frantically imposing travel bans and scrambling to ramp up its coronavirus sequencing abilities after several countries on the continent reported suspected Omicron cases.
A suspected case of the variant was discovered in Innsbruck, western Austria, after a traveler who recently arrived from South Africa tested positive for Covid, the Tyrol state government said Saturday. Samples from the case have been sent to the capital of Vienna, and results are expected in the coming days, authorities said. Dozens more are suspected in the Netherlands and the Czech Republic.
Keenly aware of the public health risk and political pressure, Tianjin officials convened a video meeting at 1 a. Sunday in a show of their resolution to contain the outbreak. At the meeting, Li vowed to take "resolute measures" to "make all-out efforts to block the channels of transmission" and fortify Tianjin's role as a "moat" to protect the capital against the virus.
Party and government organizations, state-owned companies and public institutions were ordered to take the lead in keeping their employees in Tianjin, while checkpoints were set up at the airport, highways, train stations and ports.
All tutoring centers, daycare centers and vocational training centers were closed down, while universities and colleges sealed off their campuses. Tianjin is considered among China's foremost cities. It is one of only four provincial-level municipalities directly under the administration of the central government -- alongside Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing.
What Xi'an's chaotic lockdown reveals about China's uncompromising top-down bureaucracy. Tianjin authorities have not ordered a full lockdown that would confine all residents to their homes -- the kind that was imposed in the northwestern city of Xi'an last month, which sparked an outcry over food shortages and obstructed medical access.
Such a move would be politically fraught and economically damaging -- Tianjin is a major port and economic hub, and a stringent citywide lockdown in the lead-up to the Lunar New Year could risk sparking resentment among residents. No means No!! You clueless fool. I had covid and I had a mild cold. I have not been nor will I be vaxed. I have friends and family who were fully vaccinated and they were very sick and even died.
Mamy know they can get 5 days holiday quarantine. So has she been tested at home or a medical Dr???? Biggest hoax of all time. Any employer still forcing masking on their employees is just an asshole!!! For the love of sanity, stop it!!! The vaccine does not make the virus any weaker, I know fully vaccinated ppl that it did nothing to help them,,, ppl seriously need to do their own research, and approach every aspect of this thing with extreme prejudice!!!
Those who tested positive were sent into isolation at a nearby hotel, the Dutch authorities added. The discovery of the new variant has sparked fears around the world. A number of countries have imposed travel bans and the global markets plunged. Travel doors slam shut as new Covid variant triggers alarm, stranding hundreds of passengers. But while WHO designated the Omicron a "variant of concern" on Friday, it stressed that more research is needed to determine whether the variant is more contagious, whether it causes more severe disease, and whether it could evade vaccines.
Lawrence Young, a virologist and a professor of molecular oncology at Warwick Medical School in the United Kingdom, said the Omicron variant was "very worrying.
This variant carries some changes we've seen previously in other variants but never all together in one virus.
It also has novel mutations," Young said in a statement. The variant has a high number of mutations, about 50 overall. Crucially, South African genomic scientists said Thursday more than 30 of the mutations were found in the spike protein -- the structure the virus uses to get into the cells they attack. What we know about the Omicron variant. Scientists have praised South African health authorities for their quick reaction to a Covid outbreak in the country's Gauteng province, which led to the discovery of the new variant.
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