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09:00 am by AFP The United States praised South Africa Saturday for quickly identifying the new COVID strain called Omicron and sharing this information with the world—a barely veiled slap at China's handling of the original outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Travellers queue at an area for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) Covid-19 tests at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg on November 27, 2021, after several countries banned flights from South Africa following the discovery of a new Covid-19 variant Omicron. A flurry of countries around the world have banned ban flights from southern Africa following the discovery of the...
