(Bloomberg)
The World Health Organization and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said a new strain discovered by South African researchers is a “variant of concern,” as global markets swooned at the prospect of a setback in the fight against the coronavirus.
Scientists are trying to ascertain how quickly the new variant, officially assigned the Greek letter omicron, can spread and whether it’s resistant to Covid-19 vaccines.
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