place and travel bans might have a very minimal impact and a very severe economic impact on this part of the world. paula. nick, you re at the airport in atlanta, a major international hub, especially for delta. they re still flying from south africa. what are you seeing today? reporter: this is a crowded export, as we expected. these rounds are similar to prepandemic numbers that we saw in 2019. this comes as we re hearing news of this variant that s emerged, omicron. we don t know a lot of epidemiological data about this variant. we ve been asking passengers if they re aware and joined by one of those passengers, 13-year-old landry. thank you for taking the time with us on cnn. what do you think of the crowds? is this what you expected? i expected it to be a lot more busier because it s a major travel day for people coming from thanksgiving. where were you just visiting? we were in north carolina. we re going back to new orleans
as we re hearing news of the emergence of a new variant omicron. we re asking passengers how it s factored into their travel day and joined here by some of the travelers. what s your name guys? chris. and rebecca. and these are? lily and lila. hey, guys. how are you? you are travel back to los angeles today? yes, sir. reporter: you heard me talking about this variant omicron. you have sort of seen the headlines a little bit. what do you think about this? i don t do much thinking about it. i know we re going to hear more and more variants. every six months we ll hear about a new strain that will be more deadly or more, you know, potent perhaps in some way or another. we re just going to live our life. we re going to take precautions. we re both vaccinated. not totally against boosters, so we deal what we need to do to keep our loved ones and family safe but we re not going to stop living life. we ll keep doing what we do. reporter: i talked to you off camera. delta i
year where our group got together, the board got together as we were hearing news of the alpha variant, which you will remember emerged from the uk around that time, and we were trying to figure out what to do at that time. and i think it s going to be a very similar discussion about what are you doing with respect to travel restrictions, if somebody is traveling into the u.s. from overseas, what do you do about testing, about quarantines? how can we expand vaccination, which was a tool that was not at our disposal at that time to the general population. i think all of these things are going to be looked at very carefully again. and a passenger in newark who arrived from south africa told cnn the covid test they took before leaving south africa were randomly checked. is it fair to have these travel bans in place effectively punishing south africa when the u.s. doesn t even appear to be doing a lot of the due diligence that needs to be done?
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