Omicron Variant Found on Flights Reveals Gaps in Covid-19 Travel Rules

The probe into two flights from South Africa to the Netherlands, on which more than a dozen folks analyzed beneficial for the freshly discovered Omicron variant, expose gaps in the patchwork of current journey measures now in area to contain the coronavirus.

Of close to 600 passengers on the two flights, sixty one analyzed beneficial for Covid-19 after becoming taken off the planes, held for hours in an isolated aspect of Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport and analyzed. Sunday early morning, Dutch health and fitness authorities claimed that at minimum thirteen have been confirmed as the Omicron variant, a new strain very first determined in southern Africa.