New COVID Variant Omicron Triggers Global Alarm

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…

By PTI and Chanakya Forum

EU moves to halt air travel from places with new COVID variant

By Sabine Siebold and Marine Strauss (Reuters) - The European Union might halt air travel from places where a new coronavirus variant detected in South Africa had spread, the bloc's…