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World Health Organisation (WHO) designates B.1.1529 as a ‘variant of concern’

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has designated B.1.1529 as a ‘variant of concern’. The variant of SARS-CoV-2, first detected in Africa’s Botswana, has been named Omicron.