By PPN News Staff
No cases of the new omicron (B.1.1.529) variant of SARS-CoV-2 have been reported yet in the United States, but Canadian officials confirmed cases in Ontario, so it is already in North America.
The World Health Organization classified omicron as a variant of concern (VOC) on Nov. 26 after researchers in South Africa reported it on Nov. 24. The WHO decision was based on a review by the organization’s Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution that omicron has