B.1.1.529 declared Covid 'variant of concern', renamed Omicron | New Straits Times

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NSTworld The World Health Organisation has declared the recently-discovered B.1.1.529 strain of Covid19, first detected in southernAfrica, to be a variant of concern and renamed it Omicron.

 

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