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Just as we identified the nu variant in south africa, and the suggestion to have a meeting. we had a large group of specialists and had a discussion about this nu variant that has emerged in south africa and discussing also which kind of classification should go. what will happen is that 4pm geneva time the world health organisation will convene a media briefing where they will highlight the category they will put on this variant, potentially a variant of concern and then they will decide on the naming of it following the greek alphabet system. how possible is it to say at the moment, professo...

From the world health organization none of us are safe until all of us are safe and really need to redouble our efforts to ensure vaccines are rolled out globally otherwise we will see a lot of new mutations occurring in the virus because that is what it does, mutates co nsta ntly. jim, another question is if the nu variant has also been found in hong kong, why have flights not been suspended from there? it was first detected in hong kong detected in travellers coming from south africa, a single traveller coming from south africa and that person entered a form of hotel quarantine in hong kong ...

I am pleased to say i can bring in the professor from the centre in south africa who has been at the world health organisation meeting now discussing this nu variant. thank you forjoining us. tell us how the meeting went and what did you discuss? thank you for inviting me to your programme. that is what we call the technical working group on virus evolution and that normally happens every seven weeks. there are 25 members across the world with many of the top virologists and biologists and we have been meeting since the beginning of the pandemic. we started meeting to really discuss the emerge...