The World Health Organization formally listed the mutated covid-19 variant omicron as a “variant of concern” on Friday, setting off a wave of panic from governments across the globe. And whereas it’s too early to panic, since we don’t but know if omicron is extra transmissible or more deadly, that didn’t cease many nations from banning worldwide journey from a number of nations the place the variant has been recognized.

Where has the omicron variant been noticed up to now? Omicron has popped up in 16 nations and a minimum of 44 nations have arrange new journey bans in an effort to maintain the variant out. And whereas the U.S. isn’t presently on the checklist of nations with omicron, consultants consider it’s already inside U.S. borders. Two instances have already been confirmed in neighboring Canada.

“It’s almost definitely here already, just looking at the number of cases coming off planes this weekend. It’s almost a certainty that there have been cases that have gotten into the United States,” former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb advised CBS Face the Nation on Sunday.

Scientists in South Africa have been the primary to establish the brand new variant final week due to its world-leading virus monitoring, however omicron virtually actually didn’t originate there. And it may very well be a few weeks earlier than we truly know whether or not omicron is extra harmful than covid-19 variants like delta—a variant that’s nonetheless killing roughly 1,000 Americans every day.

Below we’ve got a listing of nations which have found instances of the omicron variant of covid-19 both throughout the neighborhood or in a aircraft upon touchdown at its vacation spot, together with hyperlinks out to learn extra:

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Many nations just like the U.S. have banned travel from 9 nations in southern Africa, together with Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Some of the nations on the prohibited checklist haven’t even detected any instances of the brand new variant but, like Seychelles, Lesotho, and Namibia. And some nations have prolonged journey bans to incorporate different jurisdictions the place the brand new variant has been recognized.

For instance, the Philippines has banned journey from seven European nations, together with Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.

“Inbound international travel of all persons, regardless of vaccination status, coming from or who have been to red list countries or jurisdictions or territories within the last 14 days prior to arrival to any port of the Philippines shall not be allowed,” presidential spokesperson Karlo Nograles stated in an announcement to China’s Xinhua information outlet.

India has additionally revised its border management insurance policies and anybody touring into the nation from designated “high-risk” areas might want to self-quarantine for seven days. The checklist consists of lots of the nations already recognized by the Philippines, but in addition has Bangladesh, China, Mauritius, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Israel, in keeping with CNN.

Other nations are being much more restrictive and shutting their doorways fully. Japan is placing a cease to the arrival of all international nationals beginning on Tuesday, whereas Israel and Morocco introduced they have been doing the identical factor over the weekend.