Covid-19 Testing Increases At Sydney Airport As New Virus Strain Identified

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 28: No entry signage is seen at the arrivals area at Sydney International Airport on November 28, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. NSW Health authorities will now send people who have been overseas in the two weeks before their arrival into three days of home quarantine, as the state works out its response to the threat posed by a new, “concerning” variant of COVID-19 named Omicron. Premier Dominic Perrottet says precautionary steps are needed to protect against the Omicron variant while experts investigate the risk to the public. The border control, announced on Saturday evening, is on top of new restrictions imposed by the federal government on Saturday, closing the border to nine countries in Southern Africa. Australian citizens entering NSW who have been in South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, Eswatini, Malawi, and the Seychelles in the last two weeks must now do two weeks of mandatory hotel quarantine. (Photo by James D. Morgan/Getty Images)