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On travel will do is to further damage the economies of the affected countries and undermine their ability to respond to and also to recover from the pandemic. >> doctor, the w.h.o. has spoken out against these travel bans as well. whats your advice to government who is want to protect their people when there is so much unknown? >> so the first thing is to really up your tracking and tracing and your surveillance. now, a lot of governments, a lot of countries have been dismantling them, been act...

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Protect the american people. >> reporter: are you imposing any new testing or tracing on americans or green card holders who come from those southern african countries? once they get here? >> secretary psaki: we already have stringent requirements in place, as you know. requirements of vaccination, a vaccination requirement, and individuals need to be tested within three days of traveling. i dont have any additional requirements or restrictions to preview aside from the current restrictions on t...

Variant. the only thing that prohibition on travel will do is to further damage the affected countries and also to recover from the pandemic. >> reporter: now the south african president is backed up by the health commission. they are saying theres only minimal effect of these kind of bans and that the door should be open with possibly more testing and tracing in place. in the coming days south african scientists and all around the world will be trying to understand just how dangerous this varia...

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List. that, you know, have not actually become the predominant strain, and so we really need these studies over the next few weeks to show us definitively, are these -- is this particular variant, is it more transmissible? does it cause more severe disease? does it have the ability to evade the immune system, which would have implications for the effectiveness of vaccines or monoclonal antibody treatment so obviously theres concern but we know what measures actually work. again, all the variants...

Agency will be closely monitoring this. we have pcr testing which can actually spot this new mutation, it is picked up in pcr testing. that is not 100% accurate but it is an early heads up that this could be this new variant and that can be taken away for sequencing to get confirmation. clearly that is what has happened and they have identified these two cases. then it is about targeted search testing and tracing, making sure you get in contact with the close contacts, get them to isolate. they ...

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Whether they will stop travelers coming from the african continent. the united kingdom reinstated its red list for most of southern africa out of an abundance of caution, calling it temporary, but it could take several weeks for scientists to figure out just how dangerous this variant is. now, the move has been criticized by the south african government, calling it hasty, saying more information is needed. the africa cdc also saying that bans are not helpful and that tracing and testing is more ...

Theres at least one here, at least two said from the beginning that they were worried about their lives, worried about the outcome of the trial would be, what it would do to their community and their own personal safety. they said that at the beginning of this trial and to have people following them, the jurors dont know who is following them, tracing what is going on, they dont know it is a reporter but this is jury tampering and it is obvious that is what that is so the judge made the right ch...