africa neighboring nations. shown up in bats swana hong kong possibly belgium and elsewhere. proliferating we know in south africa. no confirmed cases of the omni variant in the u.s. so far. exarpd with the delta variant two new receptors. south africa can researchers note that the omicron variant has 10. racing to find what what that means for here is president biden from nantucket yesterday. i decided we are going to be cautious, make sure there is no travel to and from south africa and six other countries in that region. [clearing throat] except for american citizens who are able to come back. we don t know a lot about the variant, except that is of great concern. the president said he issued the travel restrictions in consult sult can his covid response team.
it started in bats swana and very little evenings down there. 24% of south africa cans vaccinate in the area around johannesberg some reports 90% of the icelet that they re finding. still a small number overall. there is 32 mutations to this spike protein. that s concerning we don t know how trans miivel it is evade the vaccine. the world health organization is going to call this a variant of concern my opinion. they will give it a letter, a greek letter. we are going to have to track this one very carefully. this one i m concerned about. lawrence: should we stop travel until we figure out what s going on from folks coming in an were and out of the trust south africa. that s a tremendous question. lawrence, we have got than wrong ever since the beginning of the pandemic when donald trump called for the restrictions on china i say yes