“Passengers from South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique will no longer be allowed on Qatar Airways flights,” the airline said in a statement on Twitter.
It is noted that the air carrier analyzes the situation on a daily basis as new data comes from the World Health Organization.
On November 25, it became known that scientists have identified a new strain of coronavirus in Botswana, South Africa and Hong Kong, which could potentially become the most dangerous.
Later it was designated by the Greek letter "omicron".
The first cases of the disease with a new strain of coronavirus have already been identified in Germany and Israel.
The chairman of the World Medical Association (WMA), Frank Ulrich Montgomery, believes that a new strain of the omicron coronavirus could become as dangerous as the Ebola virus.