GENEVA | The risk posed by the highly contagious variant of the coronavirus Omicron in the world remains “very high”, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday.
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“The overall risk associated with the new omicron worrying variant remains very high,” warns the WHO in its weekly epidemiological bulletin. “Reliable evidence shows that the Omicron variant has a growth advantage over the Delta variant with a doubling rate of two to three days,” adds the WHO, noting that a “rapid increase in the incidence of cases is observed in a number of countries ”.