The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) in a statement urged world leaders not to implement “knee-jerk” policy decisions in response to the detection of the Omicron variant.
The US, UK, Canada and other countries have imposed ban on flights from southern Africa to counter the spread of new variant of concern Omicron. But are travel restrictions like this actually helpful?
The Centre had on Thursday asked all states and union territories to conduct rigorous screening and testing of all international travellers coming from or transiting through South Africa, Hong Kong and Botswana, where B.1.1.529 has been detected.