On Nov. 24, South Africa told the World Health Organization that amid a recent increase in COVID-19 cases, it had identified a new variant -- later named omicron -- with a high number of mutations, raising concerns that it could spread more easily than other variants of the coronavirus. We'll go through what we know so far about omicron.
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