New Covid Variant Name 2021. How Omicron the new COVID-19 variant got its name Vimal Patel The New York Times Published. There is a high to very high risk that the new Covid variant named Omicron by the World Health Organization on Friday will spread in Europe the European.
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A new Covid-19 variant has been detected in South Africa that scientists say is a concern because of its high number of mutations and rapid spread among young people in Gauteng.
WHO labels new COVID-19 variant of concern names it Omicron Comments By Alice Tidey Updated. WHO brands new Covid strain variant of concern and names it Omicron. An advisory panel classified Omicron as a highly transmissible virus. Nearly two years into the Covis-19 pandemic the world raced Friday to contain a new coronavirus variant potentially more dangerous than the one that has fueled relentless waves of infection on nearly every continent.