{"id":209818,"date":"2021-11-26T22:08:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T20:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-news-new-omicron-variant-triggers-travel-bans-as-fears-spread-across-globe\/"},"modified":"2021-11-26T22:08:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T20:08:23","slug":"sa-news-new-omicron-variant-triggers-travel-bans-as-fears-spread-across-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-news-new-omicron-variant-triggers-travel-bans-as-fears-spread-across-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"SA News: New Omicron variant triggers travel bans as fears spread across globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=1B23ECB39C2F44B59791369406602DBE&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wimbledonguardian.co.uk%2fnews%2fnational%2f19745909.new-omicron-variant-triggers-travel-bans-fears-spread-across-globe%2f&#038;c=17941759236044578863&#038;mkt=en-gb\">New Omicron variant triggers travel bans as fears spread across globe<\/a>: The White House said the US will restrict travel from South Africa and seven other countries in the region beginning on Monday. It did not give details except to say the restrictions will not apply to &#8230;<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=1B23ECB39C2F44B59791369406602DBE&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wimbledonguardian.co.uk%2fnews%2fnational%2f19745909.new-omicron-variant-triggers-travel-bans-fears-spread-across-globe%2f&#038;c=17941759236044578863&#038;mkt=en-gb\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=1B23ECB39C2F44B59791369406602DBE&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.thenorthernecho.co.uk%2fsport%2fnational%2f19745890.cardiff-scarlets-stuck-south-africa-failure-clear-charter-flight%2f&#038;c=13690643144008454538&#038;mkt=en-gb\">Cardiff and Scarlets stuck in South Africa after failure to clear charter flight<\/a>: Cardiff and the Scarlets say they are struggling to fly their teams back from South Africa despite securing a charter plane. The two Welsh regions, along with Munster and Zebre Parma, have been in the &#8230;<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=1B23ECB39C2F44B59791369406602DBE&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.thenorthernecho.co.uk%2fsport%2fnational%2f19745890.cardiff-scarlets-stuck-south-africa-failure-clear-charter-flight%2f&#038;c=13690643144008454538&#038;mkt=en-gb\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=1B23ECB39C2F44B59791369406602DBE&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.walesonline.co.uk%2fsport%2frugby%2frugby-news%2fcardiff-scarlets-facing-10-day-22292800&#038;c=13519082258267718935&#038;mkt=en-gb\">Cardiff and Scarlets facing 10-day hotel quarantine upon return from South Africa with huge European fixtures in doubt<\/a>: Players and staff of Cardiff Rugby and the Scarlets are preparing themselves for a 10-day hotel quarantine when they return from. Should such a situation transpire, i &#8230;<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=1B23ECB39C2F44B59791369406602DBE&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.walesonline.co.uk%2fsport%2frugby%2frugby-news%2fcardiff-scarlets-facing-10-day-22292800&#038;c=13519082258267718935&#038;mkt=en-gb\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=1B23ECB39C2F44B59791369406602DBE&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.cruisecritic.co.uk%2fnews%2f6620%2f&#038;c=10804090651310070238&#038;mkt=en-gb\">New Omicron COVID-19 Variant Affects International Travel, Cruises in Africa<\/a>: On Friday, the World Health Organization identified and named a new variant of COVID-19 originally discovered in and reported by authorities in South Africa one that is already having some severe &#8230;<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=1B23ECB39C2F44B59791369406602DBE&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.cruisecritic.co.uk%2fnews%2f6620%2f&#038;c=10804090651310070238&#038;mkt=en-gb\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=1B23ECB39C2F44B59791369406602DBE&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.fxstreet.com%2fnews%2fgbp-usd-steady-around-13340-amid-a-risk-off-market-mood-202111261939&#038;c=5459434252973160834&#038;mkt=en-gb\">GBP\/USD steady around 1.3340 amid a risk-off market mood<\/a>: At the time of writing, the GBP\/USD is trading at 1.3341, up some 0.14%. In the overnight session, market sentiment dampened as South Africa announced the discovery of a new COVID-19 variant. The &#8230;<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=1B23ECB39C2F44B59791369406602DBE&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.fxstreet.com%2fnews%2fgbp-usd-steady-around-13340-amid-a-risk-off-market-mood-202111261939&#038;c=5459434252973160834&#038;mkt=en-gb\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Omicron variant triggers travel bans as fears spread across globe: The White House said the US will restrict travel from South Africa and seven other countries in the region beginning on Monday. It did not give details except to say the restrictions will not apply to &#8230; Source: &#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews Cardiff and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[4473,8197,6672,14826,830,42567,9375,2292,31400,39893],"class_list":{"0":"post-209818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-across","8":"tag-bans","9":"tag-fears","10":"tag-globe","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-omicron","13":"tag-spread","14":"tag-travel","15":"tag-triggers","16":"tag-variant","17":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}