Would-be travelers around the world are considering hitting the pause button on their holiday plans amid the discovery of the new CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus Omicron variant, travel agents said on Monday. The new variant of the novel coronavirus was discovered in South Africa, the country’s health minister, Joe Phaahla, announced last Thursday. There is growing concern among scientists about what Omicron’s impact might be, given that it has an unusual combination of mutations and may be able to evade immune responses or be more transmissible. In response, the European Union and dozens of countries including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Iran, Japan, Thailand, and the United States, have closed their borders or imposed restrictions on a slew of southern African countries in an effort to curb the spread of the newly detected COVID-19 variant. Israel on Saturday unveiled new plans to ban all foreigners into the country for 14 days, a world-first in the response to Omicron. A spokesperson for Flight Center Travel Group told …