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Countries around the world rushed this week to impose border and travel restrictions after the emergence of the new variant of omicron. In China, it was business as usual. As scientists rush to determine whether the COVID-19 variant first sequenced in South Africa will pose a more serious problem than the highly infectious delta strain, countries ranging from the UK and Israel to Japan have done so. exercise caution. They’ve put in place preemptive defenses and travel restrictions designed to keep the variant out, rather than betting on the omicron like a flash in the pan. It is a calculation...
