Omicron Variant Us Mutation. The department does this by studying data on. Experts are following the data around the omicron variant—and various subvariants that have emerged—in an effort to learn more about the highly transmissible virus strain.
On 26 november 2021, who designated the variant b.1.1.529 a variant of concern, named omicron, on the advice of who’s technical advisory group on virus evolution (tag. “the mutation profile gives us concern, but now we need to do the work to understand the significance of this variant and what it means for the response to the.