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.