travel bans. south africa calling those moves unfair. pandemics are not about panicking, they re about policies, protocols and practice. and we are also monitoring this hour the market, the stock market as nervous investors as stocks stabilize after friday s fifth selloff. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. hello, everyone. it is monday, november 29th. we begin with a global scramble where we ve contained the omicron variant. the world health organization has in the last hour or so come out with a technical statement saying the risk is very high. travelers from south africa take effect. g7 is set to hold talks later on the phone today. new form of omicron has been found in seven countries. the u.s. isn t alone in shutting its borders in an attempt to contain the variant. that has sparked anger in south africa where scientists have alerted the global community. while there are signs omicron is more infectious, we still don t know how b
i think it should not be the lead story right now because it is a story based entirely on speculation. we will have data from really hard working scientists over the next few weeks that will help inform how we can put this new variant into context. this holiday weekend concerning early data put the whole world on high alert from variants emerging in southern africa. the world tries to avoid another setback like we saw when delta hit. here s what we know. the variant appears to have a large number of mutations. here s what we don t know. a lot. whether that means it s more contagious or evades the vaccine we have. that s all being researched. in the meantime, the bottom line is they say the vaccines are still the best protection we have. we don t know yet how much of an impact this will have. it ought to redo you believe our efforts to use the tools that we have, which are vaccinations and boosters and to be sure we re getting those to the rest of the world too which t
i m john berman with brianna keilar. major developments around the world as country after country takes action against the new highly mutated omicron covid variant. but it s hard to tell what is spreading faster, the variant or fear. fear based for now on speculation. because there s so much we don t know. is it more contagious? is it more lethal? does it evade vaccines? this morning, we genuinely don t know. and it could take weeks for an answer. overnight, the united states banned entry for non-citizen travelers for south africa and seven neighboring countries. japan, israel and morocco have essentially shut down their borders. confirms cases of omicron include canada. . this has not been detected in the u.s. yet, but officials say it may already be here. this is what dr. francis collins of the nih said on cnn s state of the union. how severe would it be? we have no data so far to suggest that it would be. there s even a bit of a report from south africa that maybe pe
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variant. it s hard to tell what s spreading faster this morning, the variant or dpfear. is it more contagious, is it more lethal? does it evade vaccines? it will take weeks to get answers. overnight, the united states banned entry for non-citizen travelers from south africa and seven neighboring countries. at least 44 other countries are also imposing travel restrictions. japan, israel and morocco have suspended all arrivals of foreign nationals, basically shutting down their borders. a growing number of countries reporting confirmed cases of the omicron variant, including canada. the variant has not been detected in the u.s. yet. we say yet because health officials say it may already be here. the cdc is currently sequencing coronavirus genomes, working closely with state health officials. south african epidemiologist is aleem abdul karim talked about what they re seeing there. based on the current evidence in south africa, it s transmitting faster than the delta variant