Posted on 12/01/2021 12:02:31 PM PST by lightman
The World Health Organization is recommending people 60 and older to postpone their travel plans over Omicron variant concerns.
The WHO, which named Omicron as a variant of concern (VOC) on Nov. 26, says it is monitoring the spread of the variant, and advised certain travelers to delay their trips to “areas with community transmission.”
“Persons who are unwell, or who have not been fully vaccinated or do not have proof of previous SARS-CoV-2 infection and are at increased risk of developing severe disease and dying, including people 60 years of age or older or those with comorbidities that present increased risk of severe COVID-19 (e.g. heart disease, cancer and diabetes) should be advised to postpone travel to areas with community transmission,” the WHO said in a press release on Nov. 30.
In its latest update, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that those aged 65 to 74 account for nearly 22 percent of all deaths by COVID-19 in the United States. The percentage continues to grow as their age increases, with 26 percent for those from 75 to 84, and 28 percent for 85 and older.
The WHO said as of Nov. 28, over fifty countries have implemented their version of travel measures prohibiting the entry of travelers arriving from Southern African countries, including South Africa, which first reported the Omicron variant to it on Nov. 24.
The organization added that the new variant is expected to be detected around the world as countries step up in their tracking efforts. It recommended countries to test passengers prior to travel and upon arrival for COVID-19 and quarantine international travelers, among several measures.
However, it advised against blanket travel bans, saying that the measures “will not prevent the international spread” of Omicron, and will “place a heavy burden on lives and livelihoods.”
At the same time, the bans will adversely impact global health efforts by “disincentivizing countries to report and share epidemiological and sequencing data.”
“All countries should ensure that the measures are regularly reviewed and updated when new evidence becomes available on the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of Omicron or any other VOC,” the WHO said.
While countries doubled their efforts to delay the importation of the new variant, the WHO stressed that essential international travel should still be prioritized at all times during the pandemic. Essential travel includes traveling for emergency and humanitarian missions, and cargo transport for essential supplies.
Meanwhile, all other travelers are reminded to “remain vigilant for signs and symptoms of COVID-19, to get vaccinated when it is their turn and to adhere to public health and social measures at all times and regardless of vaccination status,” the WHO said.
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So is that what Xi and Xiden told WHO to say?
NIH
Bull Stuff!
If you think I’m spending the rest of my life cooped up in
my home, think again.
Wash, rinse and repeat.
Mail in ballots only- 2022!
Not traveling regardless of what all these liars are spewing.
They’re just trying to stop people from gathering, talking and enjoying Christmas.
Good point.
I’d forgotten about their need for that.
Tell it to Deep State.
They’re the ones dragging the POOTUS’s demented derriere all over Heck’s half acre...
Freedom is dying everywhere
I have little desire to travel anymore other than my own region. Did enough travel in my other life. It’s why I put a lot of effort into my finding the right place to escape to and then made my compound nice, the way I like it and secure. In fact so neat it’s hard for me to leave. For example, I even built an optical observatory that I can be remotely operated from inside the hideout. Instead of traveling 2 thousand miles to bump bellies with a bunch of obnoxious tourist, I travel millions of light years and go where few will ever see. I can even bring back postcards!
The WHO can go ___ themself.
So much for that 15 day thing Fauci and scarf lady Birx were pushing.
WHO has no authority to stop travel.
But they don’t need it. When Omicron deaths begin, people will lock themselves down.
At no time last year were people prohibited from flying domestically — but passenger traffic still crashed. Because people are not insane and a goodly chunk of airline employees locked themselves down.
BINGO!
Prolonging the Plannedemic Puritanism appears to be the goal.
If a second Thanksgiving, a second Christmas, third Easter, and a third Independence Day, can be squelched through fearmongering (if not outright government oppression) it may not be much longer before people will not only not wish to return to pre-Plannedemic celebrations, but will actually begin to lose the memory of what such celebrations were like.
This is the CCP’s global “Cultural Revolution”.
The WHO can go Fauci themself.
Whatever WHO recommends, do the opposite.
#pureblood
58 yo
GFO WHO!
I live in America and will go where ever I want, kkthx.
Let the Leftist commies try to un-Constitutionally prevent that with air travel bans for ‘unvaccinated,’ etc. Sure hope they can be everywhere at one time......not.
FUWHO
FUWHO’s COUPFLU.
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