News Forum - AirAsia boss accuses governments of overreacting to Omicron threat

[Thaiger]

The CEO of the AirAsia Group says governments shouldn’t panic over the emergence of the Omicron Covid-19 variant. The Bangkok Post reports that Tony Fernandes says officials should instead focus on reducing the cost of PCR testing. “It’s a huge overreaction. We don’t know anything about this variant yet. Let’s wait and see before we jump the gun.” Fernandes says the world is now in a much better place to control the virus and deal with variants like Omicron, give the new treatments that are being made available. “There are Merck pills and Pfizer pills are coming out. We are […]

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[Fanta]

Who’s panicking? Apart from him when he first heard of the new variant. Talk about a bad day at the airline head office! 

[Poolie]

I thought Tony Fernandes got the shove from AirAsia?

Maybe re-instated. Who knows?

[AlexPTY]

Tony sounds like he completely lost his marbles

[TheDirtyDurian]

Fifty people caught Omicron from one Xmas party in Norway, so maybe not 

[HolyCowCm]

Best he just go complain to the CCP for the world having Covid.