Japan will close its borders to all foreign visitors after the discovery of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced on Monday, November 29. The move comes three weeks after the country eased some restrictions to allow entry for foreign business travelers, students and interns. Follow our live.
Eight “possible” cases of the Omicron variant detected in France. Sequencing is underway to confirm the information, the health ministry said on Sunday. These people have all traveled to southern Africa in the past two weeks.
A “emergency meeting” G7 ministers. The health ministers of France, the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom meet in London on Monday “to discuss the evolution of the situation on Omicron”, during a “emergency meeting”, announced London.
Contamination on the rise in France. Some 31,648 new cases of Covid-19 have been detected in the past 24 hours, according to data released by Public Health France on Sunday. A week earlier, 19,749 new cases of Covid-19 had been identified.