The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says the agency is increasing COVID-19 testing at four U.S. airports in an effort to stop the spread of the Omicron variant as the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended that certain vulnerable groups stop traveling.
During a press briefing on Tuesday, wine tours long island (jetblacktransportation.com) Dr Rochelle Walensky said the CDC's biosurveillance program is being expanded to airports, including those that have direct flights to South Africa.
Three of the four airports - New York-John F. Kennedy International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey and San Francisco International Airport in California - have already been enrolled in the program but were expanded to survey for Omicron.
The program is now being extended to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, in Georgia, where Delta Air Lines operates three flights a week from Johannesburg.
It comes as the WHO suggested at-risk groups, including those above age 60, should not travel in the wake of the new variant.
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CDC director Dr Rochelle Walensky said on Tuesday (above) that the CDC is expanding its COVID-19 testing and surveillance program to four U.S. airports to limit the spread of the Omicron variant
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