South Africa Travel Ban

• Canadian junior women’s field hockey team gets testing exemption to return from South Africa

  The federal government has granted an exemption for the B.C.-based junior women's field hockey team, allowing them to board a flight bound for Canada this week.

  Health

  Dec 5, 2021
  
• Calgary family stranded in South Africa amid travel bans prompted by Omicron variant

  The family - all Canadian citizens - was supposed to return to Canada on Nov. 27, but travel bans due to the newly-discovered Omicron variant impeded the trip home.

  Canada

  Nov 29, 2021
  
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• Ottawa working to get women’s field hockey team home from South Africa after Omicron travel ban

  The Canadian junior women's field hockey team has been stranded in South Africa due to new travel restrictions targeting the Omicron variant.

  Canada

  Nov 29, 2021
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• Vaccine equity, not travel bans needed to combat COVID-19 Omicron variant: scientists

  Imposing travel bans on southern African nations in relation to the COVID-19 Omicron variant could risk disincentivizing sequencing efforts made by doctors in the future.

  Health

  Nov 28, 2021
• Explainer: What is this new COVID-19 variant emerging in South Africa?

  South African experts said there are no indications to date that the variant causes more severe or unusual disease and noted that as with other variants.

  Health

  Nov 26, 2021