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What do we know about the Omicron variant?
Scientists in South Africa have identified a new variant of the Covid virus. What do we know about Omicron?
Scientist in South Africa have identified a new variant of the Covid-19 virus.
Cases of the Omicron variant have been identified in countries including Belgium, Germany, Australia and Hong Kong.
Some countries have put restrictions on travel from parts of Southern Africa.
Scientists say that it will be a couple of weeks before we understand exactly how the Omicron variant behaves.
But what do we know so far?
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