World Races to Contain New COVID Threat, the Omicron Variant | World News
By RAF CASERT and CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the world raced Friday to contain a new coronavirus variant potentially more dangerous than the one that has fueled relentless waves of infection on nearly every continent. A World Health Organization panel named the variant “omicron” and…