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COVID omicron variant: BCCI have to consult executive sooner than sending cricket team to South Africa, says Anurag Thakur

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India tour of South Africa is a serious subject signifies Anurag Thakur, South Africa reportedly is the nation the establish a brand fresh COVID-19 variant has emerged.

Anurag Thakur, the Union Minister for Formative years Affairs and Sports actions on Saturday (November 27) said that the Board of Retain a watch on for Cricket in India (BCCI) have to consult the executive sooner than sending the cricket team to South Africa the establish a brand fresh COVID-19 variant has emerged.

The World Health Organisation on Friday (November 26) insecure the siren amongst worldwide locations after a brand fresh variant of COVID-19 became categorized in South Africa, the Swiss Federal Space of commercial of Public Health (FOPH) said in an announcement.”No longer most efficient BCCI, but every board have to furthermore consult the Indian executive sooner than sending the team to a nation the establish a brand fresh COVID-19 variant has emerged. It is rarely any longer ultimate to send the team to a nation the establish there might be a threat, if BCCI consults us we shall be succesful to deliberate on that,” Thakur told ANI here in Baghpat.

India is slated to tour South Africa subsequent month for 3 Tests, three ODIs and four T20Is. The tour is slated to open on December 17.

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Saturday named the fresh COVID-19 variant B.1.1.529, which has been detected in South Africa, as ‘Omicron’. This came after the WHO held a gathering to keep in touch about the newly-identified COVID-19 variant.

“The no longer too long ago stumbled on variant of coronavirus B.1.1.529 is of subject. It has more mutations than science knows about other alarming variants. The WHO has assessed this fresh variant as worrisome,” the verbalize said.

This variant has been labelled as B.1.1.529 by scientists. WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier said after the meeting that early prognosis reveals that this variant has a huge resolution of mutations that require and have to undergo extra gape.

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