{"id":39518,"date":"2021-12-06T15:41:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T06:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/dec\/06\/covid-news-live-omicron-found-in-one-third-of-us-states-germany-plans-vaccine-mandates-for-some-health-jobs"},"modified":"2021-12-06T21:40:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T12:40:17","slug":"covid-news-live-omicron-found-in-a-third-of-us-states-thailand-detects-first-case-of-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39518","title":{"rendered":"Covid news live: Nigeria likens Omicron border closures to \u2018travel apartheid\u2019; Russia and Argentina report first cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High commissioner says Omicron is mild variant and travel ban not necessary; fully vaccinated traveller to Argentina had tested negative on departure and arrival<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/dec\/06\/covid-news-live-omicron-found-in-one-third-of-us-states-germany-plans-vaccine-mandates-for-some-health-jobs?page=with:block-61ad5cf48f08b914bbcf5953#block-61ad5cf48f08b914bbcf5953\">Omicron variant has now been detected in 16 US states<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/05\/belgian-police-fire-water-cannon-at-anti-lockdown-protests\">Anti-lockdown protests in Brussels, Belgium, turned violent<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/06\/covid-not-over-next-pandemic-could-be-more-lethal-oxford-jab-creator\">Covid not over, next pandemic could be more lethal: Oxford jab creator<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/05\/omicron-what-do-we-know-about-the-new-covid-variant\">Omicron: what do we know about the new Covid variant?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <strong>Johnson &amp; Johnson <\/strong>booster shot may work well for those who originally had a <strong>Pfizer<\/strong> vaccine, a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2021.12.02.21267198v1\">study<\/a> has found.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston studied 65 people who had received two shots of the Pfizer vaccine. Six months after the second dose, the researchers gave 24 of the volunteers a third dose of the Pfizer vaccine and gave 41 the Johnson &amp; Johnson shot. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/dec\/06\/covid-news-live-omicron-found-in-one-third-of-us-states-germany-plans-vaccine-mandates-for-some-health-jobs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High commissioner says Omicron is mild variant and travel ban not necessary; fully vaccinated traveller to Argentina had tested negative on departure and arrivalOmicron variant has now been detected in 16 US statesAnti-lockdown protests in Brussels, Be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2666,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,533,93,47,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-germany","category-thailand","category-us-news","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2666"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39528,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39518\/revisions\/39528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}