Georgia announces restrictions over Omicron Covid variant
The Head of Georgia's National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Amiran Gamkrelidze announced that amid the new coronavirus variant, people arriving from South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Malawi, Mozambique will have to complete a 14-day supervised quarantine on arrival. Moreover, they have to present negative PCR test result, First Channel of Georgia reported.
Preliminary evidence suggests an increased risk of reinfection with this new variant, Gamkrelidze noted. He added that a number of studies should be conducted to evaluate how aggressive Omicron is.
The source reminds that according to the World Health Organization (WHO), Omicron (B.1.1.529) was first reported to WHO from South Africa on 24 November 2021.