WHO chief scientist urges people not to panic over Omicron

World Health Organisation (WHO) Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan, - Reuters

GENEVA/SINGAPORE, Dec 4 (Reuters): The World Health Organisation's (WHO) chief scientist told the Reuters Next conference that people should not panic over the emergence of the Omicron coronavirus variant and said it was too early to say if vaccines would need to be reworked.

Soumya Swaminathan told the conference that the fast-spreading variant would have to become more transmissible to out-compete the Delta variant, which accounts for 99% of current transmissions.