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B.1.1.529 variant named Omicron
by 8DonCo Fri Nov 26, 2021 5:40 am
WHO hosts special meeting on worrying new COVID-19 variant
Advisers to the World Health Organization are holding a special session to flesh out information about a worrying new variant of the coronavirus that has been detected in South Africa, though its impact on COVID-19 vaccines may not be known for weeks
GENEVA -- Advisers to the World Health Organization are holding a special session Friday to flesh out information about a worrying new variant of the coronavirus that has been detected in South Africa, though a top expert says its impact on COVID-19 vaccines may not be known for weeks.
The technical advisory group on the evolution of COVID-19 was meeting virtually to discuss the so-called B.1.1.529 variant that has caused stock markets to swoon and led the European Union to recommend a pause in flights to southern Africa.
The group could decide if it's a “variant of concern” — the most worrying type, like the well-known delta variant — or a “variant of interest," and whether to use a Greek letter to classify it.
“We don't know very much about this, yet. What we do know is that this variant has a large number of mutations, and the concern is that when you have so many mutations it can have an impact on how the virus behaves,” said Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO's technical lead on COVID-19, in a social-media chat Thursday.
Fewer than 100 full genome sequences of the variant are so far available, she said.
"It will take a few weeks for us to understand what impact this variant has on any potential vaccines, for example,” Van Kerkhove said.
Reached by phone, advisory group chairman Dr. Anurag Agrawal, the director of Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in New Delhi, said it was too soon to comment on the variant. He said that more data was needed before he could add to the information that was already available.
“This is one to watch. I would say we have concern, but I think you would want us to have concern," Van Kerkhove said. “We have people who are on this.”
Advisers to the World Health Organization are holding a special session to flesh out information about a worrying new variant of the coronavirus that has been detected in South Africa, though its impact on COVID-19 vaccines may not be known for weeks
GENEVA -- Advisers to the World Health Organization are holding a special session Friday to flesh out information about a worrying new variant of the coronavirus that has been detected in South Africa, though a top expert says its impact on COVID-19 vaccines may not be known for weeks.
The technical advisory group on the evolution of COVID-19 was meeting virtually to discuss the so-called B.1.1.529 variant that has caused stock markets to swoon and led the European Union to recommend a pause in flights to southern Africa.
The group could decide if it's a “variant of concern” — the most worrying type, like the well-known delta variant — or a “variant of interest," and whether to use a Greek letter to classify it.
“We don't know very much about this, yet. What we do know is that this variant has a large number of mutations, and the concern is that when you have so many mutations it can have an impact on how the virus behaves,” said Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO's technical lead on COVID-19, in a social-media chat Thursday.
Fewer than 100 full genome sequences of the variant are so far available, she said.
"It will take a few weeks for us to understand what impact this variant has on any potential vaccines, for example,” Van Kerkhove said.
Reached by phone, advisory group chairman Dr. Anurag Agrawal, the director of Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in New Delhi, said it was too soon to comment on the variant. He said that more data was needed before he could add to the information that was already available.
“This is one to watch. I would say we have concern, but I think you would want us to have concern," Van Kerkhove said. “We have people who are on this.”
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Re: B.1.1.529 variant named Omicron
by 8DonCo Fri Nov 26, 2021 8:04 am
European Union moves to halt air travel from southern Africa over coronavirus variant
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Re: B.1.1.529 variant named Omicron
by 8DonCo Fri Nov 26, 2021 11:18 am
Starting today, all foreign nationals who have travelled through South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho and Eswatini or Mozambique in the last 14 days will be barred from entering Canada.
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Re: B.1.1.529 variant named Omicron
by ga10 Fri Nov 26, 2021 1:55 pm
Hôm nay stocks đỏ lòm sau khi nghe tin new variant! 
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Re: B.1.1.529 variant named Omicron
by 8DonCo Fri Nov 26, 2021 9:27 pm
giờ gần như cả thế giới cấm bay các nước miền nam Châu Phi
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Re: B.1.1.529 variant named Omicron
by 8DonCo Sat Nov 27, 2021 6:49 am
Two cases of the new COVID-19 strain raising alarm in parts of southern Africa and unnerving financial markets worldwide have been found in travellers in compulsory quarantine in Hong Kong.
A traveller from South Africa was found to have the variant — B.1.1.529, dubbed Omicron — while the other case was identified in a person who had travelled from Canada and was quarantined in the hotel room opposite his, the Hong Kong government said late Thursday. The traveller from South Africa used a mask with a valve that doesn’t filter exhaled air and may have transmitted the virus to his neighbour when the hotel room door was open, a health department spokesperson said Friday.
A traveller from South Africa was found to have the variant — B.1.1.529, dubbed Omicron — while the other case was identified in a person who had travelled from Canada and was quarantined in the hotel room opposite his, the Hong Kong government said late Thursday. The traveller from South Africa used a mask with a valve that doesn’t filter exhaled air and may have transmitted the virus to his neighbour when the hotel room door was open, a health department spokesperson said Friday.
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Re: B.1.1.529 variant named Omicron
by LoveStory08 Mon Nov 29, 2021 7:06 am
I feel like we will never get out of this pandemic! 
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Re: B.1.1.529 variant named Omicron
by 8DonCo Mon Nov 29, 2021 7:37 am
Let me guess
The first case in US is in NY, NJ, GA
The first case in US is in NY, NJ, GA
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Re: B.1.1.529 variant named Omicron
by Rice Mon Nov 29, 2021 8:01 am
airport nào có khách từ South Africa tới nhiều thì higher chance thôi
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Re: B.1.1.529 variant named Omicron
by 8DonCo Mon Nov 29, 2021 8:04 am
Ontario just has 2 cases in Ottawa, just traveled from Africa
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Re: B.1.1.529 variant named Omicron
by ga10 Mon Nov 29, 2021 10:10 am
Rồi xong! Nó lan sang các nước khác chả lẽ cấm hết mọi nước vào Mỷ sao?
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Re: B.1.1.529 variant named Omicron
by 8DonCo Mon Nov 29, 2021 10:20 am
ga10 wrote:Rồi xong! Nó lan sang các nước khác chả lẽ cấm hết mọi nước vào Mỷ sao?
nó đã vô rồi mà chưa phát hiện thôi, rồi sẽ lòi ra thôi
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Re: B.1.1.529 variant named Omicron
by 8DonCo Mon Nov 29, 2021 6:41 pm
OTTAWA -- Ottawa's medical officer of health, Dr. Vera Etches, has confirmed two more cases of the COVID-19 Omicron variant in the city, bringing the number of confirmed cases to four.
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Re: B.1.1.529 variant named Omicron
by TuTu Tue Nov 30, 2021 6:06 am
Vay la them 1 Xmas cang thang va met moi 
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