WHO Downplays Threat of Covid-19 Variant Found in France
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The World Health Organization said a coronavirus variant found in France hasn’t become much of a threat since it was first identified in November.
The variant “has been on our radar,” Abdi Mahamud, a WHO incident manager on Covid, said at a press briefing in Geneva on Tuesday. “That virus had a lot of chances to pick up.”