Omicron Variant Expected to Stay, Says Expert

Travelers receive tests COVID-19 at a pre-departure testing facility, as countries react to the new Omicron variant, outside the international terminal at Sydney Airport in Australia, on Nov. 29, 2021. Loren Elliott/Reuters

Vaccine expert and chair of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Jane Halton said Omicron would most likely replace Delta and become the dominant strain.

“It’s arrived, and we’re now seeing it spreading not just in Sydney but elsewhere,” Halton told the Nine Network on Thursday.