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It’s early days, but the World Health Organisation has sounded a note of very cautious optimism about the Omicron Covid-19 variant. According to an AFP report, the WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan says early data shows the mutation is no more severe than earlier variants and unlikely to fully dodge vaccine protection. However, Ryan cautions that it’s still too soon to make definitive statements about the severity of the threat posed by the variant. “The preliminary data doesn’t indicate that this is more severe. In fact, if anything, the direction is towards less severity. It’s very early days, we have […]

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