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The fifth Covid ‘variant of concern’, first identified in South Africa in November, has been detected in four Australian states and territories
One mystery of the ongoing pandemic is why Victoria is still recording an average of more than 1100 Covid cases a day, compared with about 250 per day in NSW.
We were looking forward to a summer of relative normality, then along came a new coronavirus variant
Epidemiologist Nancy Baxter, who is the head of Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at University of Melbourne, said 'there's reason to be concerned but no reason to panic'.
Epidemiologists urge action as the Omicron variant has prompted a number of countries to close their borders to southern Africa.