The New York Times emails its subscribers every morning with text and links to prominent news stories. This morning, the email poses a question: These stark differences have created a kind of natural experiment: Did Omicron spread less in the parts of the U.S. where social distancing and masking were more common? The answer is surprisingly unclear. Actually, if you look at the charts, the answer could hardly be more
The WHO has deployed a team to South Africa's Gauteng province to tackle the Omicron variant of coronavirus. The province has accounted for almost 80 per cent of the infections over the past week.