•Over 3.4m persons fully vaccinated in Nigeria – FG
The World Health Organization on Friday declared the recently discovered B.1.1.529 strain of the coronavirus disease which was detected in Southern Africa as a variant of concern. The classification of the variant, which was tagged “omicron,” was announced in a statement issued by the global health agency.
“Based on the evidence presented indicative of a detrimental change in COVID-19 epidemiology, the WHO has designated B.1.1.529 a ‘variant of concern’…
