Omicron response: China to wait, see and keep up tough zero-Covid rules, experts say | South China Morning Post

China has no plans to further tighten its border restrictions to contain the spread of the new and potentially more contagious Omicron coronavirus variant , leading Chinese experts said on Sunday. A number of countries have limited travel to and from southern Africa since Friday, when the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a new Covid-19 variant detected in South Africa as one "of concern". The variant, called Omicron, has a large number of spike protein mutations and is the fifth variant to be given the designation. Cases have already been detected in Hong Kong, Britain, Belgium, likely Germany and Italy,…