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Omicron (B.1.1.529) is a variant of SARS-CoV-2 first reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) by the Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africa on 24 November 2021. [ 10][ 11] It was first detected in Botswana and has spread to become the predominant variant in circulation around the world. [ 12]
The Omicron variant features as such for the first time in the overview of WHO's weekly operational update, namely "Supporting Omicron variant detection and COVID-19 response in southern Africa." As of 2 December, Botswana and South Africa have reported 19 and 172 Omicron variant cases, respectively, accounting for 62% of global cases.
Now designated Omicron by the World Health Organization, the variant was detected and announced by South Africa's National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) on Nov. 25 from samples taken ...
South Africa's rapid increase in COVID-19 cases attributed to the new omicron variant is resulting in mostly mild symptoms, doctors say. Portuguese authorities were investigating whether some ...
Several countries announced travel bans from South Africa and its neighboring countries. The country was entering its 4th wave by 1 December 2021, [32] mostly with infections from the standard BA.1 subvariant of the Omicron variant. [18] On 4 February 2022 it was announced that South African scientists had replicated the Moderna COVID-19 ...
A small study of seven COVID-19 cases in South Africa shows the Omicron variant can break through booster vaccine shots, one of the scientists involved said on Thursday. A group of seven German ...
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has now been reported in at least 19 countries around the world, including the 77 cases found in South Africa and 19 cases in Botswana.. Scientists and other ...
Alex Sigal is a South Africa–based virologist at the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) in Durban, South Africa, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, and University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban. His work concentrates on evolution and persistence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.