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WHO chief: Omicron shows need for global accord on pandemics

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Published 01 Dec, 2021

By Staff Reporter

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday is pushing for an international accord to help prevent and fight future pandemics amid the emergence of a worrying new omicron COVID-19 variant. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also said many uncertainties remain about just how transmissible and severe infection by the highly mutated omicron might be.



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