The impact of travel restrictions on the spread of CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus variants is “very limited,” a new study has shown. Governments are not able to implement travel restrictions quickly enough for them to be effective in limiting the spread of new COVID-19 variants, said a Jan. 21 report by Edge Health and Oxera, a specialist research consultancy that works with Britain’s National Health Service (NHS). It takes several weeks before governments become aware of new variants, and even longer to assess if they are variants of concern, the study found. By the time a new variant has been discovered and assessed, it is too late for restrictions to make any difference. In the case of the Omicron variant, it was first detected on Nov. 8, 2021, but was identified by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a variant of concern only on Nov. 26. “Therefore, for a …