Tag: Covid-19 Omicron variant

Dapat bang mag-panic sa banta ng Omicron variant? |BALITALAKAYAN w/ OCTA Research Fellow Guido David

Ipinahayag ni OCTA Research Fellow, Dr. Guido David, na walang dahilan para mag-panic sa banta ng Omicron variant dahil ayon sa kaniya, “wala pang kasiguraduhan na magiging threat” sa atin ang Covid-19 variant na ito. Subalit nilinaw niya na tama ang ginagawa ng gobyerno na precautions at paghahanda para sa posibleng pagpasok ng Omicron variant sa bansa katulad ng pag-i-implement ng travel ban sa mga key countries na may “high suspicion” ng presensiya ng bagong […]

Australia bans southern Africa flights over virus concerns

Australia banned flights from nine southern African countries on Saturday, tightening its borders to prevent the entry of the new Covid-19 Omicron variant. Non-Australians who visited South Africa, Zimbabwe and several other nations in the past fortnight will also be barred from Australia, Heath Minister Greg Hunt said. Citizens and residents travelling from the listed countries will have to quarantine for 14 days. “These are strong, swift, decisive and immediate actions,” Hunt told media in […]