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Four passengers tested positive for Covid-19 amid the looming threat of new Covid variant on Tuesday night at Indira Gandhi International Airport

Just reporting one of the ideas the white house is looking at is shortening the window, instead of 72 hours before you fly to get a test to coming to the united states. maybe a day. but also, once you land in the u.s., you would have to get tested again at some point, i guess, in -- in a number of days. does -- unless someones tested immediately at the airport by authorities, what infrastructure does -- i mean, do we have an infrastructure in this country that would actually follow travelers two...

To deal with the omicron vibrany include new testing requirements from people coming in from overseas. what do you expect the president will say tomorrow? >> i can tell you that at this point it is a good idea. theres been a lot of talk about airlines having to give passenger information and i think a lot of people feel that this is an invasion of privacy. right now, the united states is heavily depending on other nations evaluation of the virus. it would be prudent and crucial that we get some ...

Just a matter of time until we find it. i went to encourage people that we do not have a lot of information on this right now. while they did come on some information that the patient in california has mild symptoms, we dont know much else. another fully vaccinated. i dont know if they are less than six months out from their second dose or more than six months out. it is the vaccine still efficacious or not question rick we dont know the age of the patient. we dont have a lot, but just note ther...

>> it sure was. we already suspected that oma crown was artie in the united states. its been identified in other countries including europe african nations and others. not surprising that its in the you united states theyre doing adequate amount of sequences and their tracing for reek stomach recent travel and the cdc is doing their part. now that we have our own samples, they can start studying them and look at how the vaccines protect against them as well as the treatments. >> sandra: sorry, w...

But also, once you land in the u.s., you would have to get tested again at some point, i guess, in -- in a number of days. does -- unless someones tested immediately at the airport by authorities, what infrastructure does -- i mean, do we have an infrastructure in this country that would actually follow travelers two or three days later and make sure they got tested? who would do that? >> yeah, not really. trying to set up an infrastructure quickly would be hard. you could test people at the air...

Kept the earlier covid variants at bay for many months with very few cases, they all suffered severe outbreaks in the end during this year. we speak now with rhoda odhiambo in nairobi. first of all, has omicron arrived in east africa?— first of all, has omicron arrived in east africa? ., , ., , , ., east africa? not yet. no cases have been identified _ east africa? not yet. no cases have been identified in _ east africa? not yet. no cases have been identified in east _ east africa? not yet. no...

All this is going to do is have people escape the normal routes. people are going to do with her going to do whether you want them to or not. the best thing to do is to make sure theyre tested before they get on the airplane and that gives us the best bet of getting a negative result decreasing transmission. >> john: i was thinking this morning that the mandatory 5-7 day quarantine. after coming overseas would kill international travel overnight. i dont know if you were alluding to this directly...

Its carrying out more sequencing, especially looking at other backlog of samples, i mean positive samples, that have been collected to try to determine how far or how much of this variant is in the country. but what he did say, also, is that there is now a kind of, you know, contact tracing of those that have been identified to try to see how many of them could be reached and be brought into kind of isolation. the united states is drawing up new travel guidelines, and governments in europe, alre...

Delta variant. austria has extended its lockdown and its moving ahead with plans to make vaccinations mandatory. greece says its citizens aged over 60 will have to get the jab orface monthly fines. and the man set to become germanys leader says hes in favour of compulsory vaccinations. translation: we have not managed to vaccinate a sufficient _ number of citizens. that is why we are in the situation we are in today. and thats why its right that we say that under these circumstances, such a deci...