Omicron Variant discovered on Flights displays Gaps in Covid-19 travel guidelines

After scientists identified a brand new variant of the virus inflicting Covid-19, nations confined go back and forth to and from southern Africa. WSJ's Anna Hirtenstein explains that buyers have grew to become to bonds and gold as they prepare for extra advantage disruption. image: Sumaya Hisham/Reuters

The probe into two flights from South Africa to the Netherlands, on which greater than a dozen people established high quality for the newly found Omicron variant, demonstrate gaps within the patchwork of current shuttle measures now in region to include the coronavirus.

Of around 600 passengers on the two flights, sixty one proven nice for Covid-19 after being taken off the planes, held for hours in an remoted a part of Amsterdam's Schiphol airport and proven. Sunday morning, Dutch health authorities referred to that as a minimum 13 have been established because the Omicron variant, a new strain first identified in southern Africa.