WHO recommends that people over 60 stop travel World Health Organization urges people over 60 to postpone travel due to concerns about the spread of the Omicron strain. And the director of the US CDC announced an increase in testing at four international airports.

The head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Dissemination, Dr. Rochelle Walenski, announced on Tuesday that the agency is expanding testing for COVID-19 at the four largest US international airports. We are talking about John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey, San Francisco Airport in California and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta in Georgia..

According to Walenski, the program provides for increased testing of " We are talking not only about tourists and citizens of other states, but also Americans who have visited certain questionable regions..

The Omicron variant was identified in South Africa last week, but it is believed that it originated in the state of Botswana.. Now this strain has begun a rapid march across the planet, although the authorities of many other countries are taking active measures to close the borders and slow down the invasion of Omicron.. The last country where this strain was identified was Greece.. And the World Health Organization recommended on Tuesday all at-risk groups, including citizens over 60, to postpone any travel.

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