treated patients with omicron advising calm. currently there is no reason for panicking. how dangerous is it? we have the latest on the search for answers. the great return. millions of travelers taking to the roads and skies today on track for a new pandemic record. biggest cyber monday ever is what analysts are predicting ahead of tomorrow s online bonanza. this year the deals are harder to find. what you need to know. facing her accusers the woman charged with helping jeffrey epstein abuse teenage girls in court for her trial tomorrow. and the moment a bride who is paralyzed walked down the aisle. the groom breaking down in tears. good evening governments are moving quickly to limit travel into their countries in an attempt to slow the spread of the new covid variant called omicron. canada announced it has identified cases and the u.s. begins restrictions on travelers from some african countries just hours from now. president biden held an emergency meeting wit
there s a lot of work that is ongoing in south africa and in other countries to better characterize the variant itself in terms of transmissibility, in terms of severity, and any impact on our counter measures like the use of diagnostics, therapeutics or vaccines. cnn has a team of correspondents covering this breaking news for us. we have david mckenzie in south africa, pete muntean is tracking this at the airports. let s begin with arlette saenz in nantucket with the president. what does the president want americans to know about this new variant at this hour. reporter: president biden is trying to show they are tangkin this coronavirus variant seriously, and is enacting the travel restrictions to keep people safe. the president released a statement saying that he was briefed this morning by anthony fauci as top medical adviser and after those discussions they determined that this was the appropriate course, to ban travel from south africa and seven other nations in tha
Treated patients with omicron advising calm. currently there is no reason for panicking. how dangerous is it? we have the latest on the search for answers. the great return. millions of travelers taking to the roads and skies today on track for a new pandemic record. biggest cyber monday ever is what analysts are predicting ahead of tomorrow s online bonanza. this year the deals are harder to find. what you need to know. facing her accusers the woman charged with helping jeffrey epstein abuse teenage girls in court for her trial tomorrow. and the moment a bride who is paralyzed walked down the aisle. the groom breaking down in tears. good evening governments are moving quickly to limit travel into their countries in an attempt to slow the spread of the new covid variant called omicron. canada announced it
Will be restricted from entering the united states. this move comes just minutes after the world health organization designated a new variant of concern with covid, and named it omicron. concerns over the new variant have led to multiple international travel bands, to global markets tumbling today, and to scientists already testing the impact of this variant on the vaccine s effectiveness. the fear is that omicron could evade immunity and spread more easily. this was first detected in south africa. the health minister there issued an alert yesterday saying this variant has had an unusually high number of mutations. b.1.1.529 is named as a variant of concern because it has some concerning properties. this variant has a large number of mutations. and some of these mutations have some worrying characteristics. right now, there are many studies that are underway.
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