Originally Posted by
SHVC
I doubt they will close it straight away, they may restrict travel inbound from certain countries.
They will watch it keenly tho to see the spread.
Already happening:
Federal government to announce changes to quarantine for South African arrivals
The variant has been detected in or from people who’ve been to Egypt, Israel, Hong Kong, Belgium. It’s too late to contain out of Africa.
But there’s some preliminary statements from SA that it’s not causing too much severe illness and vaccines are still keeping people mostly out of hospital, so caution and a bit of calmness needed.
Already vaccine manufacturers have stated they can tailor booster shots specific to the variant, so no doubt this will trigger anti vaxxers to claim the variant was created by big pharma all along......