Omicron COVID-19 Variant Found in More Countries, Sparking Global Concern

Passengers traveling from South Africa queue to be coronavirus disease (COVID-19) tested after being held on the tarmac at Schiphol Airport, Netherlands, on Nov. 25, 2021. (Social media via Reuters)

The Epoch Times - By Jack Phillips November 28, 2021

Health officials on Sunday announced that the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus Omicron strain, which the World Health Organization labeled a “variant of concern,” was found in several European countries over the weekend.

Last week and during the weekend, WHO and other officials sounded the alarm by saying that the Omicron variant could be highly infectious and may re-infect people who already contracted COVID-19 previously, although WHO officials criticized the EU, the United States, and the UK for imposing travel restrictions last week. Also unclear is how the variant affects vaccinated people.

Meanwhile, top South African doctor Angelique Coetzee told news outlets that the variant causes unusual yet mild symptoms in the patients she has treated so far, saying they were “so different and so mild from those I had treated before.”

Nonetheless, the Netherlands’ National Institute for Public Health and the Environment said Sunday that the variant was found during the sequencing of the 61 positive CCP virus results. The agency said that the sequencing “had not been entirely completed” and added it was “possible that the new variant will be found in more test samples.”

Also on Sunday, Italian officials confirmed the first case of the variant from a traveler who came from Mozambique, located in southern Africa, according to a statement. Officials did not say when the passenger arrived or their nationality.

Danish officials confirmed two cases of the new variant on Sunday, according to the Danish State Serum Institute. Two passengers arriving via plane from South Africa had tested positive for the Omicron strain, they told CNN, adding that both passengers are in quarantine.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Saturday said that no cases of Omicron have been detected so far in the country, although top federal health officials last week said it’s not clear.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top White House advisor and the face of the federal government’s COVID-19 response, told the “Today” show Saturday that he “would not be surprised” if the Omicron variant was in the United States already, saying that “when you have a virus like this, it almost invariably is ultimately going to go essentially all over.”

Cases have also been detected in Germany, the Czech Republic, Israel, Austria, and Belgium in recent days, according to officials. The European Union on Friday announced it is restricting travel to Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe—while the United States is slated to impose a travel ban on those southern African nations starting Monday, Nov. 29.

The UK also confirmed two cases of the variant connected to travel to the southern African region, officials said.

“We will require anyone who enters the UK to take a PCR test by the end of the second day after their arrival and to self-isolate until they have a negative result,” UK Prime Minister Johnson told a news conference Saturday.

Australia, Canada, Morocco, Oman, Russia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia have also announced similar travel curbs. Israel on Saturday said it would shut down its borders to foreign nationals for two weeks—in possibly the most restrictive ban in the world.

The WHO courted controversy for naming the variant Omicron and skipped naming it Xi after the Greek letter “xi,” as some suggested the agency was attempting to avoid angering Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

“Two letters were skipped—Nu and Xi—because Nu is too easily confounded with ‘new’ and Xi was not used because it is a common surname and [the] WHO best practices for naming new diseases … suggest avoiding ‘causing offence to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional, or ethnic groups,’” the United Nations agency said Saturday. “Mu” is also a common Chinese surname, and it was used by the WHO as a COVID-19 variant that emerged earlier this year.

Jack PhillipsBREAKING NEWS REPORTERFollowJack Phillips is a breaking news reporter at The Epoch Times based in New York

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