Doctors’ body OMAG wants ban on international flights in wake of Omicron variant

With the Omicron variant emerging as a big cause of concern, the Organized Medicine Academic Guild (OMAG), a professional body of doctors, has called for a complete ban on international flights to contain spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.

OMAG said that there has to be a sense of urgency to tackle the emerging situation.

“There should be a complete travel ban from other countries by halting international traffic/flights, not merely from those coming from South Africa, Belgium, Israel and Hong Kong. We had already made that mistake at the beginning of the pandemic banning selective flights, only from China, Thailand and Singapore,” OMAG Secretary General Dr IS Gilada and President Dr Suneela Garg said.