According to The Globe And Mail, growing evidence suggesting that the Omicron variant has already spread through community transmission has led to increased demands to end travel bans. Laboratory tests from Britain and The Netherlands revealed that Omicron was present in those countries before the first bans were imposed on travellers from southern Africa last week, while a test in Germany discovered the variant in a person with no travel history. Health officials in southern Africa have expressed anger at the travel bans, with Marc Mendelson, head of the infectious diseases division at a Cape Town hospital, saying that the bans are a “grand exhibition of futility and discrimination.”
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