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Covid-19 omicron variant: Five steps to avoid, ten to take immediately

The new variant - identified as B.1.1.529 has been declared a variant of concern by the World Health Organisation and assigned the name Omicron

coronavirus, airports, travel
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Shabir A. Madhi | The Conversation
South Africa reacted with outrage to travel bans, first triggered by the UK, imposed on it in the wake of the news that its genomics surveillance team had detected a new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africa has been monitoring changes in SARS-CoV-2 since the pandemic first broke out.
The new variant – identified as B.1.1.529 has been declared a variant of concern by the World Health Organisation and assigned the name Omicron.
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