Omicron rapidly dominating in S.Africa

By Promit Mukherjee and Trevor Hunnicutt
Updated December 2 2021 - 10:30am, first published 10:26am
Maria van Kerkhove from the WHO says it is not yet known if Omicron makes people more ill.
Maria van Kerkhove from the WHO says it is not yet known if Omicron makes people more ill.

Heavily mutated Omicron is rapidly becoming the dominant variant of the coronavirus in South Africa less than four weeks after it was first detected there, and the United States became the latest country to identify an Omicron case within its borders.

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