Originally Posted by
nomiiiii
Vaccines were supposed to be our way out of pre-travel testing madness, so yeah, lets not move the goalposts every time a variant comes out. Otherwise you'll be sitting around in 2030 doing pretravel full health panel tests for seven different viruses. If people are vaccinated (which most are), there is no need to be super concerned about having covid.
The cases in SA with the new variant are mostly very mild cases according to their Health authorities