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Next week's World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial conference, the global trade body's biggest gathering in four years, was postponed at the last minute Friday due to the new Omicron Covid-19 variant.
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The WTO had hoped the gathering would breathe new life into the organization, which has been stuck for years trying to make progress on resolving issues like fishery subsidies.
The World Trade Organization (WTO) indefinitely postponed a meeting of its members' ministers on Friday over the new COVID-19 variant omicron.
The World Health Organization said on Nov. 26 a new coronavirus strain detected in South Africa is a highly transmissible "variant of concern" and named it "Omicron."