Question: B.1.1.529 declared COVID-19 ‘variant of concern’, renamed Omicron . first detected in Which country?
a) South Africa.
b) England
c) Australia
d) China
Ans a
Related Facts :
- The World Health Organization on November 26 2021declared the recently-discovered B.1.1.529 strain of COVID-19, first detected in southern Africa.
- The classification puts Omicron into the most-troubling category of COVID-19 variants, along with the globally-dominant Delta, plus its weaker rivals Alpha, Beta and Gamma.
- The first known confirmed Omicron infection was from a specimen collected on November 9, 2021.
- In recent weeks, infections in South Africa have increased steeply, coinciding with the detection.
- High Light Points of covid19:
- COVID-19 is the disease caused by a new coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2.
- WHO first learned of this new virus on 31 December 2019.
- Following a report of a cluster of cases of ‘viral pneumonia’ in Wuhan, People’s Republic of China.