Inside The South African Lab That Discovered Omicron
Access to the laboratory is strictly limited, for the risk of accidental infection is just too high
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Access to the laboratory is strictly limited, for the risk of accidental infection is just too high
In this hospital in South Africa, technicians at whirring machines analyse 18,000 PCR tests a day, looking for signatures of coronavirus. Their work is so precise that just a handful of samples helped the team to discover Omicron
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