in... myanmar is an outlier. rates there are below 20%, but few tourists are likely to want to visit, even though the military has talked about opening the country up. but why is even with booster shots now beginning to be administered to patients here in thailand, that today's vaccines may not be effective against the new omicron variant? and governments here cannot forget that even when they did cut themselves off from the rest of the world, a cost while they kept the earlier covid variant, and they suffered severe outbreaks during this year. jonathan head reporting there. in the last hour, brazil has confirmed two omicron variant cases, the first in latin america. and you can get much more on our website about the new variant, including a useful guide explaining how you can tell whether you have the omicron strain