Australia Covid live update: Omicron detected in NSW, states tighten border restrictions

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Chief health officer, professor Paul Kelly is also doing the morning media rounds. Here he is on the ABC talking what we do and don’t know about omicron so far So, what do we know? Firstly, this is a variant of concern, this Omicron variant. It’s the 13th variant that’s had that designation from the World Health Organization. Why are we concerned? Firstly, genetically, there are quite a few changes to this.

 

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