Virologist issues warning to world over Covid-19 travel bans on SA

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Virologist issues warning to world over Covid-19 travel bans on SA
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The virologist whose discovery of the Omicron variant sparked Covid-19 travel bans on SA says if it happens again he will stop sharing his data internationally.

Tulio de Oliveira, head of the Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation at Stellenbosch University, said he would continue sharing data with the SA government, however, “to guide our own response”.about his laboratory's latest discovery: the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of Omicron.

On April 1, bioinformatician Eduan Wilkinson noticed the appearance of several abnormal SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences in new data and discovered they had gone unnoticed for several weeks.

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