Africa Business Radio

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says it was monitoring emerging evidence on the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron, which was first recently identified in Southern Africa. The NCDC in a statement signed by its Director-General, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, said the fears about its ability to evade protective immune responses and/or its being vaccine-resistant are only theoretical so far. The NCDC urged Nigerians to take necessary precautions while noting that the WHO and researchers across the world are working at speed to gain an understanding of the likely impact of this variant on the severity of COVID-19 and on the potency of existing vaccines and therapeutics.