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Hong Kong Free Press
Hong Kong Free Press
A microbiology research team at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has managed to isolate the Omicron Covid-19 variant from clinical specimens, a breakthrough that will enable the development and production of vaccines against the new “variant of concern.” HKU announced on Tuesday that a group of researchers from its Department of Microbiology had succeeded in isolating Omicron on Monday, the first known research team in Asia to achieve the result. The success came four days after Hong Kong confirmed two cases of Covid-19 involving the recently discovered variant, which is said to be highly mut…