key: cord-0753168-u24wch4y
authors: Daria, Sohel; Bhuiyan, Mohiuddin A.; Islam, Md. Rabiul
title: Detection of highly muted coronavirus variant Omicron (B.1.1.529) is triggering the alarm for South Asian countries: Associated risk factors and preventive actions
date: 2021-12-08
journal: J Med Virol
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.27503
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doc_id: 753168
cord_uid: u24wch4y

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reported Omicron variant among their citizens so far. 2 Researchers are still unclear about the effectiveness of vaccines against this variant because this variant displays multiple mutations that might resist neutralization. 3 Moreover, the most worrying thing is that Omicron is significantly different from the first coronavirus iden- 

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