Researchers who track coronavirus mutations have been poring over the details of a new variant detected this month in Botswana.
Named Omicron by the World Health Organisation (WHO) last Friday, it is the latest in an ever-growing line of more than 1,500 recognised lineages of the Sars-CoV-2 virus to emerge since the pandemic began.
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