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Does professor Paul Kelly believe there will be a wider shutdown of the Australian border in response (at this every early stage):
I spoke to a colleague at the Ministry of Health in Israel yesterday and that’s a decision that they’ve made. And that relates to their circumstances in Israel.
But most countries in the world at the moment are concentrating on that where we know that there’s virus circulating in what could be large numbers and the other nations that we’re looking at.
So, what do we know? Firstly, this is a variant of concern, this Omicron variant. It’s the 13th variant that’s had that designation from the World Health Organization.
Why are we concerned? Firstly, genetically, there are quite a few changes to this. I will stress, that it’s still the same SARS-CoV-2 that we’ve become used to, but it is different from previous versions and there are suggestions from that genetic variation that there could be changes in severity, transmissibility or indeed, interference the efficacy of vaccines and treatments.
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