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New Covid strain named Omicron by WHO, classified as 'variant of concern'

AFP | Saturday 27 November, 2021 | 12:44 AM READ MALAYALAM VERSION
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GENEVA: The World Health Organization on Friday declared the recently-discovered B.1.1.529 strain of Covid-19 to be a variant of concern, renaming it Omicron.

"Based on the evidence presented indicative of a detrimental change in Covid-19 epidemiology... the WHO has designated B.1.1.529 as a variant of concern, named Omicron," the UN health agency said in a statement.

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