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South Africa has complained it is being punished - instead of applauded - for discovering Omicron a concerning new variant of Covid-19. Botswana the only African country outside South Africa to have reported Omicron cases said Sunday it had detected 19 infections of the new Covid variant including the first four declared last week.

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In a statement published on November 25 2021the Botswana government acknowledged that four 4 cases of a new COVID-19 variant now known as Omicron were reported and recorded on November 22.

. New COVID variant detected in South Africa most mutated variant so far The C12 variant first detected in South Africa is more mutated compared to the original virus than any other known variant. The preliminary report revealed that all the four had been completely vaccinated for COVID-19 reported the Botswana government. The variant called B11529 has been detected.

The foreign ministry made the statement as countries around. A new strain of coronavirus is a variant of concern the World Health Organization announced Friday. New Covid variant leads to new Republican conspiracy theory The omicron variant should lead to questions about transmissibility severity and vaccines.

WHO is monitoring a new Covid variant scheduling a special meeting Friday to discuss what it may mean for vaccines and treatments officials said. Scientists have said a new Covid variant that carries an extremely high number of mutations may drive further waves of disease by evading the. When Omicron surged in England British researchers similarly found that many people infected with the new variant had already survived.

1 this story was updated to note that the CDC confirmed a case of the omicron variant in San Francisco. Ronny Jackson went in. Countries around the world are making preparations against omicron a new variant of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

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