Non-citizens who have visited specified countries would be barred from entering immediately, while Australian citizens and their dependents returning from those countries will be subjected to monitored 14-day quarantines. Like the novel, the Omicron strain of COVID-19 increases fears about a fresh wave of the pandemic, Australia put further restrictions on those who have traveled to nine southern African nations on Saturday.
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South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, Seychelles, Malawi, and Mozambique are the nations involved. Non-citizens who have visited seven countries would be barred from entering immediately, and Australian citizens and their dependents returning from those countries will be subjected to monitored 14-day quarantines, according to Health Minister Greg Hunt. These limits also apply to foreign students and skilled migrants coming from countries with which Australia has travel bubbles, as well as anybody who has spent the previous 14 days in any of the nine nations. Anyone who has already arrived in Australia and has spent the previous 14 days in any of those countries must immediately isolate and be tested.
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For the next two weeks, the Australian government will halt all flights from the nine southern African nations. Twenty South Africans are being held in quarantine at the Northern Territory’s Howard Springs facility, with 19 of them have tested negative for coronavirus. Hunt stated he doesn’t know whether the one positive test result is the Omicron version. The discovery of the strain – which contains a spike protein that is vastly different from the one used in conventional vaccines – sparked worldwide panic on Friday, with nations scrambling to halt travel to southern Africa and financial markets plunging to their lowest levels in almost a year.
