SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM). Here the omicron variant is shown budding (red dots) from a vero mammalian ki

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SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM). Here the omicron variant is shown budding (red dots) from a vero mammalian kidney epithelial cell 36 hours after infection. The highly transmissible Omicron variant of the Sars-CoV-2 virus, the most common form of which is known as , now accounts for nearly all of the coronavirus infections globally. Numbers of Omicron infections can double in under two days, which is significantly faster than previous COVID-19 variants and closer to what public-health officials would expect from the milder influenza virus. Magnification x 8000 at 10cm wide. Specimen courtesy of Greg Towers, UCL.

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