click, call or visit a store today. welcome back to cnn newsroom. i m rosemary church. if you are just joining us, let me bring you up to date on our top stories this hour. three people are dead and eight others injured in america s deadliest school shooting of the year. authorities say the 15-year-old suspect is in custody under suicide watch, and we will continue to bring you the latest as the story unfolds. meanwhile, u.s. health officials are considering new requirements for all travelers to help detect omicron variant cases. the variant is now confirmed in
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
VTLs for these three countries, originally scheduled to launch from December 6, will now be deferred until further notice , the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Sunday night.
The B.1.1.529 variant has become a cause of global concern, as per the WHO s Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution (TAG-VE).