Vigilance of junior scientist led to discovery of Omicron variant

Dr Allison Glass said that it was the vigilance of a junior scientist that identified the new variant and that so far the symptoms they were seeing were mild.

A clinical virologist at the laboratory in South Africa where the Omicron variant was detected has said that it was the vigilance of a junior scientist that led to the discovery. 

Dr Allison Glass of the Lancet Laboratory in Johannesburg said that so far, the symptoms that they were seeing from the variant were mild.