US to restrict travel from South Africa, seven other countries due to new COVID-19 variant omicron.


Dawn Gilbertson, USA TODAY
Fri, November 26, 2021, 1:07 PM
The U.S. is going to restrict travel from South Africa and several other countries due to a troubling new COVID-19 variant.

The White House announced the new rules, which come just weeks after the country reopened to international tourists with new entry rules, on Friday.

The new rules, which take effect Monday, apply to travelers from South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique, and Malawi. U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents are excluded.

The policy was implemented out of an "abundance of caution'' in light of the new variant and in consultation with Anthony Fauci, the president's Chief Medical Officer, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.



Even though it says that US citizens/residents are exempt, you know it's going to put a damper on travel there.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-...frica-192306712.html

Right before the show season and we all know how this administration feels about sport hunting.
Doubt they'll shut down travel to Ukraine or China where the Biden clan makes its money.

Of course there could be nothing going on at all dishonest could there? Answer: Everything Democrats do is dishonest!

Talk about a gut punch to most African operations and PH’s. I’m guessing this will mean that 75% of African safari operations will not be able to attend DSC or SCI. Tragic

American citizens can still travel to Southern Africa. We just can't travel to the USA.
To me, that is more important than being able to attend the show.

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Originally posted by KMG Hunting Safaris:
American citizens can still travel to Southern Africa. We just can't travel to the USA.
To me, that is more important than being able to attend the show.

Very true.
In May I am bringing four new hunters to SA.

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Originally posted by KMG Hunting Safaris:
American citizens can still travel to Southern Africa. We just can't travel to the USA.
To me, that is more important than being able to attend the show.

I think the concern for many is will you be able to get back home given testing protocols and travel restrictions. Still a lot to be learned, may be good or may be bad, about this new variant but I think that is going to take the next 30-60 days for sure. Seems like the shows in January are at substantial risk.

61 COVID-19 cases found on flight from South Africa to Netherlands amid screening for new variant

We Americans may be able to still go, but will the airlines still be making the route?

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Originally posted by WLW:
We Americans may be able to still go, but will the airlines still be making the route?

Exactly.

Looks like Emirates has suspended flights as well.

Stole this , but too good not to share:

A True Story...

Pretty accurate assessment of Omicron reaction.

“In just 48hrs everything just went upside down, looking at all the updates and social media posts I could not help but write the below outlining the absurd response from the countries. Maybe some of them will realize what has actually transpired.”

South Africa: Hey guys, look what we discovered in our labs while researching Covid19 variants and mutations

World: What??

SA: It's a new variant of Covid19, seems to be different than others, lets work together and study it further.

World: What? You have a new variant of Covid19?!?!

SA: No, we just found a way to 'identify' a new variant, it seems it has also already been detected in Hong Kong, Israel and Botswana.

UK: Hey guys, no offence but we already have 45,000 cases a day, don't wear a mask everywhere, allow large gathering however we cannot risk getting a new variant.

SA: But we just identified it and showed you guys how to check for this variant, it did not originate here. We have advanced labs because we do research on AIDS, TB and other communicable diseases.

UK: Thank you for the research, however a complete travel ban to you and your 5 neighbors.

Netherlands: We heard UK banned flights to you because you have the new variant, we are also imposing a ban to you and your neighbors!

Namibia: WTF! What did we do? We have less than 20 new cases a day since a month now!

EU: Guys, we have a situation in our hands.

Namibia: The situation where Germany has had 76,000 cases a day and Other countries are breaking daily records for cases?

EU: No, not that situation.

Lesotho: Is it that UK still has 40,000+ cases a day and doesn't seem to have it under control?

EU: No, UK isn't a part of us anymore, not our concern.

Malawi: We hear Poland has some serious rise in cases and hospitalizations

EU: Really?! We have no idea, we must look into it. But not what we are talking about.

Eswatini: What situation then?

EU: We heard that South Africa has a new variant, their numbers are rising rapidly and since some of you are next to them, we need to close travel to the region with immediate effect!

SA: Dude, we just identified it! We only have a few cases in the region. Especially when compared to what you guys have. What's with the knee-jerk reaction?

Namibia: Knee-jerk, that's the word we were looking for.

UAE: We are closing flights to Southern Africa, we don't want to risk it. Sorry guys.

USA: We are looking into this and studying the variant, we wont ban flights yet.

SA: Thank you USA, finally a voice of reason!

Mauritius: Sorry SA and the variant group, I saw some other countries refer to you as that, we are friends and all but we are concerned about our tourism and economy, so we will also ban you guys for now until we know further.

SA: We thought you were family. Goes to show how money is more important!

Belgium: We already have 1 new case of the new variant, thanks a lot SA.

SA: We literally just showed you how to identify it.

UK: Thanks a lot SA, now we also have 2 cases of it.

SA: What about our vaccinated people?

World: Nope, we need to run tests first and figure out what this virus can do and how effective the vaccination is against it.

WHO: Hey guys, a quick question. The next Greek alphabet is 'Xi'. What do we do? China? Are you here?

China: Don't you dare! Leave us and our president out of it. Call it something else. And we don't allow anyone in anyway, so the variant is not our concern.

WHO: We got it boss. It's now called Omicron.

WHO: Sorry we meant Sir. China isn't our boss.

SA: It's true what they say, no good deed goes unpunished. The next time we won't tell you guys about the next mutations or variants we find.

World: Sorry can't hear you, too busy dealing with the outbreak that you caused. How about we talk about this later?

Namibia: It's the weekend, lets braai & go camping and let the world figure this one out themselves, we are still open to everyone. And if you wish to travel here, ask your leaders to start thinking before making decisions.

To be continued.....

Written by Nrupesh Soni.

This is nothing but scare mongering!

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Originally posted by Saeed:
This is nothing but scare mongering!

And it's working.