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WHO flags Omicron high risk as businesses react
5 years agoThis handout picture made available by the World Health Organization (WHO) on November 29, 2021 shows WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addressing the special session of the World Health Assembly in Geneva. The world must study the wreckage of Covid-19 and say "never again" by striking a pandemic preparedness treaty, the WHO said as countries gathered to build a new accord. Christopher Black / World Health Organization / AFP
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said, yesterday, that the Omicron coronavirus variant carried a very high risk of infection as more countries closed borders, casting a shadow over economic recovery from the two-year pandemic.