China News Agency, Moscow, November 26 (Zhang Meng Tianbing) The Russian Epidemic Prevention Headquarters announced on the 26th that Russia will restrict foreign citizens from nine African countries and Hong Kong, China from November 28 to prevent the new variant of the new coronavirus. Entry.
According to TASS news agency, Russia will restrict foreign citizens living in South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Madagascar, Swaziland, Tanzania, and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, as well as those who have visited these countries and regions in the past 10 days. Of foreigners entering Russia.
It is reported that the above-mentioned countries and regions have reported the discovery of new variants of new coronavirus infections.
In addition, Russia will suspend flights with Tanzania until February 1, 2022.
The Russian Federation Consumer Rights Protection and Public Welfare Supervision Agency will work with the Ministry of Transport to organize rapid nucleic acid tests on Russians arriving from Africa, Israel, the United Kingdom, and China.
There are currently no reported cases of this new coronavirus variant in Russia.
A few days ago, the discovery of a new variant of the new coronavirus (B.1.1.529) has been reported in many countries in Africa.
Experts said that the new variant of the new coronavirus is highly infectious and resistant to vaccines.
On the 26th, the World Health Organization stated after an emergency meeting that compared with the previous mutant new coronavirus, the newly discovered mutant new coronavirus (B.1.1.529) has "a large number of mutations, some of which are worrying."
WHO said that experts plan to conduct research on this new mutant virus, but it will still take several weeks.
In addition, the World Health Organization has listed the strain as a "variant of concern (VOC)" group, and named the new variant new coronavirus with the Greek letter "Omicron".
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