The World Health Organization designates the newly identified B.1.1.529 coronavirus strain as a 'variant of concern' and assigns it a name
From CNN's Leinz Valesis prompting governments around the world to ban travelers from several southern African nations.
However, one expert suggested Friday that instead of travel bans, the way to combat the variant first detected in“By the time you implement travel bans, the cat is out of the box,” Dr. Carlos del Rio, executive associate dean at Emory University School of Medicine, told CNN. “This has been identified in Hong Kong, in Israel, in many other places. Once you get it there, it really doesn't matter. I mean, you already have it spread globally so what we need to do, again, is implement not travel restrictions but implement the kind of things that we know that control the spread.”“We need to be thankful that countries like South Africa have invested in genomic sequencing and have been able to pick up strains like this,” Del Rio said.
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