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Omicron: Canada includes Nigeria in travel ban list

The Canadian government has added Egypt, Malawi and Nigeria to the ‘travel ban’ list following the growing concerns over the Omicron variant COVID-19.

Canadian Health Minister, Jean-Yves Duclos was quoted to have said, “We are adding three countries to the list of these countries that we talked about last Friday, these are Malawi, Egypt and Nigeria.”

The health minister added that all travelers coming from outside Canada, apart from the United States, would now be tested at Canadian airports for the novel coronavirus disease, regardless of vaccination status.

This development came on Tuesday, after the World Health Organization called for countries to keep calm and take “rational” measures in response to the new COVID variant, Omicron.

The WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus while briefing countries said, “We call on all member states to take rational, proportional risk-reduction measures.”
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