WHO Holding Emergency Meeting to Discuss New ‘Heavily Mutated’ COVID-19 Strain

WHO Holding Emergency Meeting to Discuss New ‘Heavily Mutated’ COVID-19 Strain
People wait to get vaccinated at a shopping mall, in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Nov. 26, 2021. Denis Farrell/AP Photo
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is holding a meeting Friday to discuss the rise of COVID-19 cases in southern Africa blamed on a new variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.

WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier confirmed the closed-door meeting in Geneva, saying that participants met to designate the COVID-19 strain, known as B.1.1.529, as either a variant of concern or interest.

Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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