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1. Rwanda temporarily suspends its commercial flight to Southern Africa region due to the emergence of the Omicron variant first detected there.
   2021-11-29 01:06:23 (First version)
2. Rwanda temporarily suspends all commercial flights to Southern Africa due to the emergence of the Omicron variant.
   (Current version)

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