Iran Press/ Europe: The global spread of the variant suggests it could have a major impact on the pandemic, and the time to contain it is now, before more Omicron patients are hospitalised, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news briefing.
According to reuters, he said: “We call on all countries to increase surveillance, testing and sequencing, ... Any complacency now will cost lives.”
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