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Scientists are tracking a highly mutated variant of the virus which causes COVID-19 to understand the extent it can spread or the manner in which it can react against human immunity. more
Gaps in surveillance, testing, sequencing and vaccination are continuing to create perfect conditions for a new COVID-19 variant of concern to emerge: WHO
Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) has once again alerted lapses in strategies to tackle Covid-19 this year continue to create the perfect conditions for a "deadly new varia ...
WHO classifies new COVID strain as 'variant of concern', names it 'Omicron'
Geneva/JEN: The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday declared the recently-detected B.1.1.529 strain of COVID-19 as a variant of concern and named it as Omicron.
Belgium detects Europe's first case of new COVID variant
Brussels/JEN: Belgium on Friday detected its first case of the new variant of COVID-19, which also marks the first infection in Europe, media reports said.
