LATEST: Cornell University is moving into a 'level red' alert after a 'significant' number of suspected omicron cases were detected among student samples.
Share to TwitterCornell University is moving into a"level red" alert after a"significant" number of suspected omicron cases were detected among student samples.Mennen Hall and Campus, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
All undergraduate events are canceled, as is Saturday's recognition ceremony for December graduates, Pollack said. After the omicron variant was first discovered in South Africa and Botswana in November, several countries around the world, including England and the United States, imposed travel bans on a swath of nations in southern Africa.
"As always, we keep all our travel measures under review and we may impose new restrictions should there be a need to do so to protect public health," SchappsDespite the travel bans, the heavily mutated variant has taken a foothold in London. British Health Secretary Sajid Javid told Parliament on Monday that omicron accounts for more than 44% of COVID-19 infections in the U.K.
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