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They'll also be considering its impact on the effectiveness of vaccines. here's our medical editor fergus walsh. afteralpha, beta, gamma, delta comes omicron, which scientists think could be the worst variant yet. so, is omicron more transmissible? it appears to be driving a rise in infections in south africa, but it's too early to be certain what's happening, as cases only started increasing ten days ago from a very low level. the world health organization said omicron shows why the world needs a new global agreement on how to prevent, prepare and respond to pandemics. we should all be wide a...

Do, in a mixed way, are good things to do to reduce the number of cases of low. it is really hard to predict the numbers we will see in coming weeks but i expect we will see increasing numbers day on day for at least the next couple and then hopefully a more steady state. but it really depends on how transmissible this virus is compared to the variants that have gone before. i think what we have seen before. i think what we have seen before in every single wave is that we can see rises in the number of case numbers and we have seen that with alpha, delta, but in other cases such as in the beta...

The latest Covid variant was named Omicron after much deliberation

Saying all along, these vaccines do work, even against beta and gamma, and certainly we expect it to work against this as well. it might not be quite as good as stopping you having passing the disease from one person to another, which we have already seen with two doses with delta, that you can stop the virus up delta, that you can stop the virus up and pass it on, which is why we are doing the booster programme. we are doing the booster programme. we are hoping this programme will protect us against whatever variant comes along. let protect us against whatever variant comes along-— protect ...

Don't know what is going to happen with it in that respect, we have to wait and see. i5 with it in that respect, we have to wait and see-— wait and see. is it more transmissible, - wait and see. is it more transmissible, which i wait and see. is it more transmissible, which it| wait and see. is it more - transmissible, which it does wait and see. is it more _ transmissible, which it does appear to be, but also is it more dangerous in terms of does it make you more ale and increase the risk of death? i don't think we know that for sure. what we do know as it is a... way the changes have come ...