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Serious Great News! Whole Europe will be locking down from African variant of Covid!
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When the world runs out of Greek letters to name new strains, then it is time to use names like KNN, CCB, KNNBCCB, LJ, NB, HK.
See.... easy to bully poor country.... if China was a poor country that will happen to stop China economy.
See... China conned US to be enemy and don't have to join EU or US to bully attack poor country.... instead stir shit at Taiwan so NK Russia and China can't wait to rain missiles on 5 eye soil... that's the way to free NK and resume buddy economy with China...
This war will turn out to be NK vs US war.... 三国演义 开始了....
See... China conned US to be enemy and don't have to join EU or US to bully attack poor country.... instead stir shit at Taiwan so NK Russia and China can't wait to rain missiles on 5 eye soil... that's the way to free NK and resume buddy economy with China...
This war will turn out to be NK vs US war.... 三国演义 开始了....
Altogether now!!! KNN ah!!!
Could be a conspiracy, people are behind this to spook the stock market....
If the Omigod virus is detected in SG, SG and SIA will be f**ked big-time. All the VTLs will be cancelled.
Odds are the Omigod virus will be carried from Africa to Mauritius to India and to Singapore.
Odds are the Omigod virus will be carried from Africa to Mauritius to India and to Singapore.
Covid: New variant classed 'of concern' and named Omicron
Published1 hour ago
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a new coronavirus variant to be "of concern" and named it Omicron.
It had a large number of mutations, and early evidence suggested an increased reinfection risk, the WHO said.
It was first reported to the WHO from South Africa on 24 November, and has also been identified in Botswana, Belgium, Hong Kong and Israel.
A number of countries around the world have now decided to ban or restrict travel to and from southern Africa.
Travellers from South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho and Eswatini will not be able to enter the UK unless they are UK or Irish nationals, or UK residents.
US officials said flights from South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique and Malawi would be blocked, mirroring earlier moves taken by the EU. It will come into effect on Monday.
Brazil and Australia also introduced travel restrictions.
'Bad news - but not doomsday'
On Friday, the WHO said the number of cases of this variant, initially named B.1.1.529, appeared to be increasing in almost all of South Africa's provinces."This variant has a large number of mutations, some of which are concerning," the UN public health body said in a statement.
It said "the first known confirmed B.1.1.529 infection was from a specimen collected on 9 November".
The WHO said it would take a few weeks to understand the impact of the new variant, as scientists worked to determine how transmissible it was.
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But Professor James Naismith, a structural biologist from the University of Oxford, added: "It is bad news but it's not doomsday."
He said mutations in the variant suggested it may spread more quickly - but transmissibility "is not just as simple as 'this amino acid does this'" and was determined by how mutations worked together.
Only about 24% of South Africa's population is fully vaccinated, which could spur a rapid spread of cases there, Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Modelling group (Spi-M), told the BBC on Friday.
Meanwhile, US infectious disease chief Dr Anthony Fauci said that while the reports on the new variant threw up a "red flag", it was possible that vaccines might still work to prevent serious illness.
"Until it's properly tested... we don't know whether or not it evades the antibodies that protect you against the virus", Dr Fauci told CNN.
The WHO has warned against countries hastily imposing travel restrictions, saying they should look to a "risk-based and scientific approach".
However, in addition to the UK, and the US and the EU, a host of other countries have also announced restrictions:
- Australia announced on Saturday that flights from South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, the Seychelles, Malawi, and Mozambique would be suspended for 14 days. Non-Australians who have been in those countries in the past two weeks are now banned from entering Australia
- Japan has announced that from Saturday, travellers from much of southern Africa will need to quarantine for 10 days and take a total of four tests during that time
- India has ordered more rigorous screening and testing for travellers arriving from South Africa, Botswana and Hong Kong
- Iran will ban travellers from six southern African countries, including South Africa. Iranians arriving from the region will be admitted after testing negative twice, state TV says
- Brazil also said it was restricting travel to the region from six countries in Africa
"The reaction of some of the countries, in terms of imposing travel bans, and such measures, are completely against the norms and standards as guided by the World Health Organization," he said.
Echoing his words, Angelique Coetzee, chairperson of the South African Medical Association, told the BBC that the travel restrictions on her country were premature.
"For now, it is a storm in a tea cup," she said.
Only about 24% of South Africa's population is fully vaccinated, which could spur a rapid spread of cases there, Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Modelling group (Spi-M), told the BBC on Friday.
Stock markets across the world also fell sharply on Friday, reflecting the fears of investors over the potential economic impact.
The FTSE 100 index of leading UK shares closed 3.7% down, while main markets in Germany, France and the US also sank.
A "variant of concern" is the World Health Organization's top category of worrying Covid variants.
The decision adds weight to the mounting scientific worry about the potential of this new variant, but it doesn't change any of the facts.
The variant has an astounding collection of mutations which are thought to increase its ability to spread and bypass some, but not all, of the protection from vaccines.
However, we still don't have the clear real-world data.
We don't know for sure that it spreads faster, makes vaccines or drugs less effective or whether it leads to more severe disease.
The WHO have also given it a name and ended days of speculation that we would end up in the slightly ridiculous position of calling the new variant the "Nu variant".
There have even been arguments about the correct pronunciation of the Greek letter Nu (it's technically a "Nee").
Instead, you can guarantee we'll be talking a lot about Omicron in the weeks to come.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-59438723
Likely to leak in... SQ launching multiple flights to India next week, if this Omicron gets to India, it'll come to SG eventually....
High alert: World scurries to contain new COVID variant
With each passing hour, new restrictions were being slapped on travel from countries in southern Africa as the world scurried to contain a new variant of the coronavirus that has the potential to be more resistant to the protection offered by vaccinesBy MIKE CORDER and PAN PYLAS Associated Press
27 November 2021, 19:16
• 5 min read
The Associated Press
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- With each passing hour, new restrictions were being slapped on travel from countries in southern Africa as the world scurried Saturday to contain a new variant of the coronavirus that has the potential to be more resistant to the protection offered by vaccines.
A host of countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada Iran, Japan, Thailand and the United States, joined others, including the European Union and the U.K. in impose restrictions on southern African countries in response to warnings over the transmissability of the new variant — against the advice of the World Health Organization.
Despite the shutdown of flights, there was increasing evidence that the variant is already spreading. Cases have been reported in travelers in Belgium, Israel and Hong Kong, and Germany also has a probable case. Dutch authorities are checking for the new variant after 61 passengers on two flights from South Africa tested positive for COVID-19.
The global health body has named the new variant omicron, labeling it a variant of concern because of its high number of mutations and some early evidence that it carries a higher degree of infection than other variants. That means people who contracted COVID-19 and recovered could be subject to catching it again. It could take weeks to know if current vaccines are less effective against it.
With so much uncertainty about the omicron variant and scientists unlikely to flesh out their findings for a few weeks, countries around the world have been taking a safety-first approach, in the knowledge that previous outbreaks of the pandemic have been partly fueled by lax border policies.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/61-arrivals-south-africa-test-positive-covid-19-81418969
We will mutate our own variant then re-export it to countries that are daft enough to open air travel to us.
overly mutated insane covid re-infects obese niggers.
Wat is the fatality rate n serious illness rate of this new variant vis a vis the china strain n Indian strain n Brazilian strain n England strain?
Germany's high infection rates lately could probably be caused by Sinkies going to Germany under the VTL scheme..We will mutate our own variant then re-export it to countries that are daft enough to open air travel to us.
Great news. This Wuhan virus will make its way back to tiongcock, the place of origin.
Let's see how this tiong OP will respond....
Let's see how this tiong OP will respond....
U working for CIA agent...Enjoying the biological war launched from Wuhan yet?
If you trade with the devil (China WTO 2001), you might prosper for a season, but eventually you will be betrayed and everything will be taken from you,
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