Omicron thwarts Grammys, Sundance amid variant surge

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LOS ANGELES — The Grammy music awards and the renowned Sundance film festival fell victim on Wednesday (Jan 5) to Omicron's relentless march, as the variant's surge gathered pace in Europe.

Citing"uncertainty" surrounding the new coronavirus variant, the Recording Academy indefinitely postponed the music awards, while Sundance organizers said the festival would go virtual with infection numbers reaching new highs.

But Prime Minister Boris Johnson said travel curbs beefed up last month to contain the new strain were now ineffective, and his government scrapped the need for visitors to have pre-departure tests and quarantine on arrival until testing negative. It was the first time that French cases breached 300,000, smashing the previous record established on Tuesday when 271,686 new Covid cases were recorded.

Flights from Australia, Canada, France, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, Britain and the United States will be banned for the next two weeks.

 

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