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30th January 2020

The WHO declared the
outbreak a Public Health
Emergency of
International Concern on
30 January 2020

26th November

WHO designates new
strain as ‘variant of concern’,
names it ‘Omicron’

666

B1.1.529 variant.
Those numbers add up to 18.
6+6+6