Two cases of the Omicron Covid variant have been detected in the UK

Britain announced it had identified two cases of the new Omicron coronavirus a day after the country temporarily banned flights from South Africa and five other countries from Friday over the newly identified variant.

The U.K. has reported two confirmed cases of the Omicron variant, and are said to be linked to travel in southern Africa.

Two cases of the mutated new coronavirus variant discovered in southern Africa have been confirmed in the United Kingdom, the country’s health secretary confirmed Saturday.

What people are saying?

Keith Boykin If we learned anything from the rapid international spread of Covid last year, we should know that Omicron is already here in the United States, even if it hasn’t been detected yet.

Mark Sumner At the moment, it’s impossible to tell if omicron is more infectious, more evasive, or more virulent. What is clear is that, almost two years since the first casesof COVID-19, the world is getting a test to see if it has learned a damned thing.