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Corona: Where was the Omicron variant first found? Amidst the danger, a new debate broke out in the world [TKB World]

There are a lot of debates about the new variant of Corona, Omicron variant. When the whole world started feeling that now the danger of corona virus has started decreasing, then this new variant again raised concerns. Now there has been a dispute regarding the origin of this variant.

Questions on Omicron’s origins

It is being said that even before South Africa, the Omicron variant had knocked in the countries of Europe. This has been mentioned in a new report. According to that report, cases with the Omicron variant started receiving 11 days ago in Western Europe. The positive report of some people is being told between November 19 and November 23.

But the question is also being raised in this report whether people who were found infected with the Omicron variant in Europe had visited South Africa in the past or not. Now this question is creating controversy regarding the origin of the Omicron variant.

Surprisingly, after this report, Germany and Belgium have also accepted that Omicron’s cases started getting in their place even before 24 November. Now the date of 24 November matters the most because on this day the whole world was informed about this new variant from South Africa.

Africa has alerted, the world’s action

South Africa itself accepted that a dangerous corona variant named Omicron has started spreading in their country. Now because the whole world has been warned first from their side, only after that many countries started imposing travel ban on South Africa.

South Africa is definitely seeing this as a punishment, but many countries are now again worried about the new wave of Corona. The Omicron variant has also been considered dangerous by the WHO. It has been called a variant of concern. But how effective the vaccine is against this variant, it is not yet clear.