Good Morning America published this video item, entitled “Beijing reports 1st omicron case weeks before Olympics” – below is their description.
Over the weekend, health authorities sealed off a person’s residential compound and workplace in an effort to quickly curb the spread of the variant.
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The Omicron variant of Covid-19 (also known as B.1.1.529) has been declared a Variant of Concern.
The Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution (TAG-VE) is an independent group of experts that periodically monitors and evaluates the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and assesses if specific mutations and combinations of mutations alter the behaviour of the virus. The TAG-VE was convened on 26 November 2021 to assess the SARS-CoV-2 variant: B.1.1.529 – which is known as Omicron – the group declared the variant a Variant of Concern.
