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Transport leaders speak out against ‘knee jerk reaction’ to Omicron

The International Air Transport Association, the International Chamber of Shipping, the International Road Transport Union and the International Transport Workers’ Federation, have jointly called for governments to not reimpose border restrictions on transport workers as a “knee-jerk reaction” to the Omicron variant of the Covid virus. They say that a week since the World Health Organization (WHO) designated the new Omicron strain of Covid-19 as a “variant of concern”, at least ... [+]