eight countries in africa including south africa where scientists first detected omicron variant. so people from those countries are banned from coming into the u.s. all-together regardless of all or not they can pass a covid-19 test and have a negative result, regardless if they're vaccinated or not, they're not allowed in this country and that sparked a lot of criticism from the international community. one u.n. official calling it travel apartheid and something that could be evaluated in the coming days, phil. >> i think the top priority is the vaccine, and the fight against the variant. what sense do we have at this point? >> it's a great question because every time we talk about a variant we have to say there could be more variants, right, the longer we're in the pandemic, the more the virus can mutate and get stronger. so dr. anthony fauci said today he thinks getting the vaccine and booster shot is your best