BBCNEWS BBC News January 19, 2022 17:04:00
Months later, our scientists, learning from their colleagues in south africa, were amongst the first in the world to help identify a new variant, omicron. a variant that was capable of spreading faster than any covid variant that had come before it. spurred by this new transmissible variant, case numbers rose to record levels and incredibly over one third of the uk's total number of confirmed covid—i9 cases happened over the last eight weeks. there was a lot we didn't know about omicron. but we did know that we were in a stronger position than the previous winter thanks to that decision to o...