Category COVID-New Variant Omnicron

Coverage of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 — why it raised concern, how it differed from earlier variants and what it meant for patients living with heart disease. Written at the time of the variant’s emergence.

Omicron- New COVID-19 Variant a concern

Omnicron new variant

On 26 November 2021, WHO designated the variant B.1.1.529 a variant of concern, named Omicron, on the advice of WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution (TAG-VE).  This decision was based on the evidence presented to the TAG-VE that Omicron has several mutations that may have an…

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