Travel Bans, Plunging Markets: Global Panic Ensues Over New Covid Variant

The discovery of a new coronavirus variant named Omicron triggered global alarm on Friday as countries rushed to suspend travel from southern Africa and stock markets on both sides of the Atlantic...

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