WHO renames new Covid strain as ‘Omicron’, declares it ‘Variant of Concern’
Geneva: The World Health Organization Friday declared the recently-discovered B.1.1.529 strain of Covid-19, first detected in southern Africa, to be a variant of concern and renamed it Omicron. The classification puts Omicron into the most-troubling category of Covid-19 variants, along with the globally-dominant Delta, plus its...