The World Health Organisation (WHO) has designated B.1.1529 as a ‘variant of concern’. The variant of SARS-CoV-2, first detected in Africa’s Botswana, has been named Omicron. The WHO in a statement said that the Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution (TAG-VE), an independent group of experts that periodically monitors and evaluates the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and assesses if specific mutations and combinations of mutations alter the behavior of the virus, was convened on November 26. Six countries' flights have been banned across the world. Watch this episode of Shatak Aajtak.
