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Countries tighten travel, stocks slide on fears of new Covid-19 variant Omicron


Singapore joined a string of countries restricting travel to and from a number of African destinations, following the detection of a heavily mutated variant of the coronavirus. As scientists raced to find out if the B1.1.529 mutant was more deadly, transmissible, or capable of evading existing vaccines, the World Health Organisation (WHO) designated it a variant of concern and assigned. ....

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