Here’s What We Know About The COVID Omicron Variant

For those of you who just woke up to the news of global chaos due to variant B.1.1.529, which has now been assigned the name Omicron today skipping the letter Nu, here's a condensed form of what has been revealed so far:

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Background

It is considered the most powerful type of coronavirus today, as it contains 32 high protein mutations and 50 in total. Specifically, the researchers noted that in the delta variant, the receptor binding contained 10 to 2 mutations, the part of the...

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