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European Union states have agreed to suspend temporarily travel to southern Africa after the detection of a new Covid-19 variant.

A committee of health experts from all 27 EU states "agreed on the need to activate the #emergency break & impose temporary restriction on all travel into EU from southern Africa," the Slovenian presidency of the EU said on Twitter.

An EU source told Reuters that the restrictions would apply to South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe.

It comes as a case of the 'nu' Covid variant was identified in Belgium, with laboratories in the country increasing their vigilance to catch the potentially more transmissible strain.

A patient returning from Egypt, via Turkey, contracted the variant of concern, according to the National Reference Laboratory, which sent a nationwide communication to raise urgency over passengers arriving from South Africa.

Two possible cases were analysed on Friday, with one identified as a delta variant and the other the new B.1.1.529 strain.
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New variant now named Omicron.

Clearly they weren't going to use Nu as it would confuse anglophones, and Xi probably was politically sensitive to Xi Jinping in China...
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BioNTech Says It will Take 100 Days to Tweak Vaccine to Match Spike if this is an escape variant

https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... -if-needed

They will know this in about 2 weeks.

We really need to dramatically accelerate the distribution of vaccines to Africa. And if the virus is mutating faster where AIDS is present more AIDS relief needs to be directed to Africa.
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Xyls wrote: Fri Nov 26, 2021 6:47 pm BioNTech Says It will Take 100 Days to Tweak Vaccine to Match Spike if this is an escape variant

https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... -if-needed

They will know this in about 2 weeks.

We really need to dramatically accelerate the distribution of vaccines to Africa. And if the virus is mutating faster where AIDS is present more AIDS relief needs to be directed to Africa.
I suppose we should be grateful it's only taking 100 days rather than a year or several as it is the case with the last-generation vaccine technology.

Sounds like we'll probably need the 4th shot (2nd booster) if Omnicron is indeed an escape variant.
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Take it easy. We don't know how dangerous Omicron is. Also we don't know how well protected we are with current vaccines. Too early.
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andmar74 wrote: Fri Nov 26, 2021 7:11 pm Take it easy. We don't know how dangerous Omicron is. Also we don't know how well protected we are with current vaccines. Too early.
Right, which is why I added the "if it's an escape variant" qualifier. I suppose it'll also depend on its reproduction rate. Early indications show it's highly transmissive, but we don't know if it'll outcompete Delta and the other variants. The next week or two will tell us.
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Read the thread. Dr. Peter Hotez summarizes the current events with Omicron nicely.

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