Amid rising concern over the B.1.1529 variant of coronavirus, designated as a ‘variant of concern’ by the World Health Organisation (WHO), Professor Gagandeep Kang told that the new variant could be more transmissible and could escape immunity. This new variant of SARS-CoV-2 was first detected in Africa’s Botswana. WHO has named this variant ‘Omicron’. India is also on its toes to prepare against this new variant. Alert has been raised against Omicron. Four state government has made RT-PCR test mandatory at airports. While over 90 cases have been registered in four days across many countries. Watch this episode.