THE World Health Organisation has said it expects to have more information on Omicron transmission 'within days', as the organisation calls for a 'balanced and proportionate approach' to tackling the variant.
The WHO Director General, Doctor Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said blanket travel bans "will not prevent the international spread of Omicron", and also "place a heavy burden on lives and livelihoods", as he called on calm.
Whether the variant is more transmissible or evades vaccines are some of the major questions that still need answering.
Vaccine developers have said it will take about two weeks to assess whether their shots are effective against it.
Van Kerkhove said one possible scenario was that the new variant, which was first reported in southern Africa, may be more transmissible than the dominant Delta variant. She said it was not yet known if Omicron makes people more ill.
WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said the agency believes the existing COVID-19 vaccines will work against the variant.
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