Kathmandu: After the global fear of the new Omicron Coronavirus variant, Nepal has decided to ban nine countries including Hong Kong.
The council meeting has decided to ban the entry of passengers arriving from and transit South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique, Malawi and Hong Kong.
In accordance with officials, travelers who have been to one of these nine countries in the last three weeks will also be limited to the Himalayan state.
“According to the order passed by the cabinet meeting on Monday, new restrictions on arrival from 9 countries have been put in effect since Friday morning.
All the authorities concerned have been informed,” Phadindramani Pokhrel, “Phadindramani Pokhrel,” Phadindramani Pokhrel , “Phadindramani Pokhrel,” Phadindramani Pokhrel, “Phadindramani Pokhrel,” a spokesman at the Interior Ministry confirmed to Ani by telephone.
Diplomatic staff and officials from countries that have now been forbidden to enter Nepal need to take part in the public health protocol that includes quarantine one week mandatory, officially added.
After the next deployment of the new Strain Covid Omicron, the government has also asked people not to go abroad to need.
Along with this, it has been mandatory for all government employees to take previous permits before starting a foreign visit.
Dozens of countries have imposed restrictions on trips in South African countries because mutations were found.
The new Omicron Coronavirus variant has been confirmed in 23 countries and the number is expected to rise, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedro Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said.
WHO on Saturday has named the new Covid-19 variant B.1.1.529 is detected in South Africa, as ‘omicron’.
It was first reported to whom from South Africa the previous week.
The epidemiological situation in South Africa has been marked by three peaks differed in reported cases, the latest from the Delta variant, which was informed in a statement.
This variant has a large number of mutations, some of them are related.
The number of cases of this variant seems to increase in almost all provinces in South Africa.
Based on the evidence presented as an indication of detrimental change in the epidemiology of Covid-19, the Technical Advisory Group on the evolution of the SARS-COV-2 virus (tag-VE) has suggested who this variant must be determined as the VOC, and the WHO has been appointed B.1.1.529 As a VOC, named Omicron.